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LONDON: PRINTRD FOR THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL; SOLD BY RIVINGTONS, ST. PAUL's CHURCHYARD AND WATERLOO PLACE ; BURNS, PORTMAN STREET J HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY ; T. B. SHARPB, SKINNER STREET, SNOW HILL ; AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1847. Mar. 1847. Page 1 Page ] Page ] Page A Page $ ar Page j; Page A Pl Page i Page i fa cl Cl( Page i m Page c Jc Page i Page i Page 4 Page ^ Page £ M Page de ?•«( Page CO LONDON : R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL. Page £ Page i ca Page 6 to JPage 6 Page ( ioi Page 7 Page "i Page ^ Page i dc Page ] ERRATA. Page 13, end of second paragraph,/or required for the school, read acquired for the school. Page 14, last line but one, /or Oxford, r«flii Orford. Page 15, third line, for to worship, read townships. Page 23, middle, for La Fortue, read La Tortue. Page 24, above the middle, for at the Rev. Mr. Dawes*, read and the Rev. Mr. Dawes. Page 25, second paragraph, /or Mr. Mezart, readMr. Hazard. Page 27, fourth line, foi' site of that place, read site at that place. Page 30, third paragraph, dele and before of gradual ascent. Page 32, below the break, after Vaudreuil dele land; and farther on, instead of for one year. There were four clergymen present, read for one year, there were four clergymen present. Page 33, end of first paragraph, for clergymen, read clergy- man. Page 35, sixth line from bottom, /or Mr. Johnston, read Mr. Johnston's. Page 38, below the middle, for Mr. Fallum, read Mr. Fal- loon. Page 39, third line, for fruit read first. Page 41, seventh line, /or upon occasions, read upon occasion. Page 45, middle, after twice in this Church, insert a comma. Page 51, second line after the break, for Mr, Davis, read Mr. Dawes. Page 52, below the middle, for anxious of extending, read desirous of extending ; and, lower down, /or Newryville, read Henry ville, and for Mr. Ford, read Mr. Forest. Page 53, middle, for contracted political institutions, read contrasted political institutions. Page 55, eighth line from bottom, /or the winding and finely wooded hills, read winding and finely wooded hills. Page 60, fifth line from bottom, /or and there some communi- cants, read and there were some communicants. Page 61, seventh line from the bottom, for township, read townships, t'age 67, last line, /or Belseil, read Belceil. Page 69, sixth line from bottom, /or were exceedingly anx- ious, read are exceedingly anxious. Page 74, third line, /or Stokeley, 7-cad Stukeley. Page 75, first line, /or I went to Cattra, read I went to bathe. Page 80, eighth line from bottom, /or services, read service. Page 92, seventh line from bottom, /or Rawdown, rcarf Raw- don. Page 102, sixth line, /or Lackenage, read Lachenaye. Ri Jouri lishir am h publi In an e\ instai PREFATORY LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE BISHOP OF MONTREAL TO THE REV. B. HAWKINS. Quebec, 10th December, 1846. Rev. Sir, I now forward the concluding portion of my Journal of last summer; and should any idea of pub- lishing it be entertained, I am desirous that whai I am here writing to you should be prefixed to such publication. In the first place I am anxious to guard against an effect which may accidentally follow, in some instances, from the more pointed or more detailed mSIIOr OF »I0NTK1£AL H mention of what is doing in this or that mission, where the new establishment of the Church may create a new interest, or wiiere favourable circum- stances may have conspired with the zeal of the clergyman, or possibly where a familiar personal intimacy may have prompted some expression of feeling, — suggesting the idea of a comparison which would be unfair between these cases and those of other clergymen, not less laborious and faithful, whose labours may not have been so marked by incident, or, perhaps, may have been particularly stated to the Society informer journals of my own. I do not well know how this effect can be avoided, except by such a general remark as I have here made ; but if my journal should fall into the hands of any of my brethren of the diocese, I would beg them to observe that it might have been prevented if my clergy would more punctually comply with the desire of the Society, that they should furnish infor- mation themselves, of the state of their missions, the nature and extent of their duties, and the progress of religion in their neighbourhoods. The Bishop might then be saved from the sole responsibility of a task, which, so performed, may not be wholly free from an invidious character. With this feeling, I have been under considerable constraint in the present journt the cl( In tion g ber of distani lars of The be ma( forme( here d( the ci] the dii paid, I to tho! St. La^ 500 m: The in the^ presem ber of I'KKFATOUY J^iyiTEK. 5 nission, ;h may iircum- of the ►ersonal sion of I which hose of ■aithful, •ked by icularly ly own. Lvoided, re here 3 hands uld beg jvented rith the 1 infor- ms, the rogress Bishop )iliiy of Uy free jling, I present journal, in speaking of the labours and exertions of the clergy at all. In this journal, I have not repeated the informa- tion given before to the Society, respecting the num- ber of stations at which the missionaries officiate, the distance of these from each other, or other particu- lars of a similar nature. The whole triennial visitation of the diocese will be made up of the winter journeys of 500 miles, per- formed in the beginning of the year ; the journey here described, of something more than 1,600 miles; the circuit yet to be made among the missions of the district of Quebec, and, lastly, the visit to be paid, by the Divine permission, early next summer, to those of the district of Gaspe, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, of which the most dii^tant is nearly 500 miles below Quebec. The number of confirmations thus fiir held was, in the winter journeys, nine, and in that to which the present Journal relates, forty-five. The whole num- |ber of persons confirmed at these fifty-four places ■ was 1,570 : the largest number at any one confirma- Ition, 325 (in Montreal)— the smallest was in the 6 HlSllor Ot iMUNTREAl/8 instuncc of th(.' coniirmation of one individual at Danville. About twenty confirmations reniain to be held. The number of churches consecrated was nine: of burying-grounds, four — all upon the summer journey. There are in the diocese 102 churches, including some two or three chapels in obscure places, which might be considered hardly to deserve the name. Of these twenty-seven are of stone, eleven of brick, and sixty-four of wood. Twelve of the number are buildings now in progress —some of them proceeding very slowly ; thirteen are buildings used for public worship in an unfinished state, in which some of them have been standing for several years ; and a good many others are imperfectly finished, and de- ficient in appendages which ought to be found in the churches of the English Establishment. This statement comprehends the two chapels burnt down in the desolating fires at Quebec of 1845, only one of which has, as yet, been rebuilt. The number of churches which have received assistance from the S. P. G. since I assumed the I I I (;harg( the nt for P] Severn I don receiv( Societ Toron The larly p in schi This ( travelli this So The have p are mi{ which endowi are of There quaran The] I idunl at main to xa nine: summer Qcluding 8, which le name, of brick, naber are oceeding r public some of ; and a and de- found in t. This •nt down ly one of received med the f I'UEFATOKY rKTTKJl. 7 charge of the diocese, j ust ten years ago, is forty-three ; the number assisted in the same way by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, twenty-nine ; several of those have been assisted more than once. I do not include the churches in Upper Canada which received assistance, through my hands, from these Societies, before the erection of the diocese of Toronto. The number of stations at which service is regu- larly performed, whether in churches or chapels, or in school-houses and other secular buildings, 220. This does not include the places visited by tlie travelling missionaries of the Church Society, when this Society has such labourers at its command. There are twenty-three places in the diocese which have parsonage-houses— all of which, except three, are missions of the S. P. G. ; and there are seven, to which more or less of glebe is attached, being an endowment made by that body. Six of these houses are of stone, two of brick, and fifteen of wood. There is also a little wooden mission-house at the quarantine station at Grosse Isle. i i There are twelve instances in which assistance has 8 lilSHOP OF MONTREALS been rendered by the S. P. G. in one shape or other, to parsonages : there is one log parsonage-house which has been abandoned; the title to the site, however, remains in the Church. The schools in the country missions are pro- vided for by the provincial statute which car- ries the title of the Elementary Act, and which, wherever a minority are dissatisfied, on account of the mixture of creeds, with the principal school of the locality, gives them the privilege of with- drawing, upon condition of their having a speci- fied number of scholars of a proper age to send, and claiming support for a school of their own. The act, however, is found to be complicated and diffi- cult in its practical working, and many of the settle- ments are in a badly provided condition as regards the means of education. The Reports of the British and North American School Society, published at home, will show what has been done by that body in Lower Canada towards the alleviation of the wants of the people in this behalf. I have seen schools conducted under their auspices which are very efficient. ****** The sevent dioces( aries e two ; 1 Scciet^ • The Bishop minor visit a] 4,000 ; time, a of the The particu Fror Franeii noxvill country on the the Ch in the '. Claren( i PREFATORY LETTER. 9 or other, se which iiowever, are pro- ich car- i which, account \\ school of with- a speci- send, and rn. The and diffi- le settle- regards e British lished at t body in he wants 1 schools ire very * The whole number of clergy in the diocese is seventy -eight ; the number holding charge in the diocese is seventy-three ; the number of mission- . aries engaged in the service of the S. P. G. fifty- two ; the number of retired missionaries of that Society, three. The number of miles to be travelled by the Bishop, in four separate main journeys, with some minor movements for detached missions, in order to visit all the stations of the Church, approaches to 4,000 ; and some addition is made from time to time, as the circuits periodically return, on account of the formation of new missions. The outline of the summer route, of which the particulars are given in the Journal, is as follows: — From Quebec up the St. Lawrence to Port St. Francis — thence into the eastern townships to Len- noxville on the River St. Francis — thence across the country to Montreal ; from Montreal to La Prairie on the opposite side, and by a circuitous route to the Chateauguay River-— thence across to La Chine in the Island of Montreal, and so up the Ottawa to Clarendon, taking in the Gore up the North River 10 PREFATORY LETTER. by St. Andrew's; after descending the Ottawa, again across from Montreal to La Prairie, and so to St. John's and the missions in the circumjacent country, and so by the Isle aux Noix to Missisqui Bay — thence into another part of the eastern town- ships, through which a circuitous course, with one deviation into the seigneurial tracts again, to visit Abbotsford and St. Hyacinth, brought me once more to Lennoxville for the confirmation, the former visit having been on college business ; thence to other parts of the same townships, and down the St, Francis River to Nicolet — from the neighbour- hood of which I ascended the St. Lawrence to Sorel, and there crossed over to the mission of Rawdon and its dependencies, in the rear of the French parishes on the north shore, and finally sweeping round through different parts of the mission of Mascouche, I came to Montreal, and so returned to Quebec on the 1st of September, having left it on the 23d of June. I am, dear Sir, Your very faithful servant, G. montrp:al. DI Jun steame six mil Colleg. which the sci arrang both u spared four se was tl of the scale ; expres the foi J Ottawa, and so to cumjacent Missisqui ern town- with one n, to visit me once the former thence to down the leighbour- to Sorel, f Rawdon e French sweeping aission of turned to left it on int, lEAL. JOURNAL OF SUMIVIER VISITATION IN A PORTION OP THE DIOCESE OF QUEBEC — 1846. June 23. — I left Quebec in the afternoon, by steamer, for Port St. Francis, distant about eighty- six miles, having business before me first at Bishop's College, in Lennoxville, and then at Montreal; after which I was to proceed on an extended tour among the scattered missions of the Society, having so arranged my plans for the visitation of the diocese, both upon the present and future occasions (if I am spared to execute my purposes), as to break it into four separate journeys, of which this now before me was the most comprehensive. The establishments of the Church in this diocese are upon a very humble scale ; but I feel more and more, what I have often expressed to the Society, the vast importance of the foundation now to be laid, and the need of faith, ^ 12 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S in order to look, with such powers as my own and such resources as lie at my command, for any effects at all commensurate with the demand. I am also led to reflect more and more every day upon the incalculable blessings which, by the Providence of God, have been procured to the Protestant inhabi- tants of all these colonies, by means of the Society's operations ; and if there be persons in England who hold back their hands from the support of the Society, under the idea that it is not an effectual instrument in promoting the cause of the gospel, I fervently pray God that their minds may be dis- abused. Those have much to answer for who, from defect of information, (since that is the most chari- table construction to put upon their proceeding,) propagate or adopt such a notion : it is very easy for "gentlemen of England, who live at home at ease,** to pass a sweeping judgment upon poor sol- diers of Jesus Christ, who are enduring hardships in the obscurity of Canadian w^oods ; these, however, stand or fall to their own Master ; but if the means of the Society (which God avert !) should be really impaired by such representations, many sheep will be left without a shepherd, many souls will have to charge upon unkind brethren in the land of their fathers, their spiritual destitution and advancing debasement. We reached the port about midnight. v=. f. June I set 01 Araeric for Sh I read I was r mission refresh! man of in com Lennox . further. * June days wi meetino body wj rarily a held in the groi which with th June examini tages ui had to 8 [I was SI [They w tliat di VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 13 r own and iny effects I am also upon the r'idence of at inhabi- J Society's gland who rt of the i effectual le gospel, ay be dis- vvho, from lost chari- oceeding,) \QYy easy ) home at I poor sol- hardships , however, he means be really shefe'p will II have to 1 of their jdvanclng nidnight. VISIT TO LENNOXVILLE COLLEGE. June 24. — After lying down for a few hours, I set out at four o'clock, a.m. by the public stage, an American waggon with a top supported by posts, for Sherbrooke, distant eighty-eight miles, which il reached between nine and ten at night* Here I was met by the Principal of the College, and the missionary of Lennoxville, and after taking some refreshment at the house of Mr. Wait, the clergy- man of the place, I proceeded on the same night, in company with the two former gentlemen, to. Lennoxville, which is only three or four miles further. June 25, and 26. — The whole of these two days was occupied by the business of the annual meeting of the College Corporation. The Collegiate body was still in occupation of the building, tempo- rarily adapted for the purpose. The meetings were held in another building, constituting, together with the ground attached to it, a most excellent property, which has been required for the school connected with the College. June 27. — This day was allotted to the College examination. Considering the manifold disadvan- tages under which the majority of the students have had to struggle, before they entered the institution^ I was surprised and gratified by their performance. They were examined in Hebrew by the Professor in. tliat department, the Rev. Mr. Hellmuth, a con- 14 BISHOP OP MONTREAL S verted Polish Jew, whom I have mentioned more than once to the Society ; and he rendered his tes- timony, supported by that of the principal, to their great assiduity and good progress within the time which has elapsed since they engaged in this study. I made an address to them all with reference to the work which is before them, touching upon the diffi- culties of the times, and urging the necessity, height- ened by local considerations, of unflinching devoted- ness and singleness of eye to the glory of their Master. Sunday, June 28. — I preached in the churches of Lennoxville and of Sherbrooke, to good con- gregations. JOURNEY TO MONTREAL. - June 29. — Early this morning I set out with the Rev. Principal Nicolls, one of my chaplains, who drove me in his own waggon, my servant fol- lowing in another with the baggage, to proceed across the country to Montreal. We had a stage of twenty-two miles to make before breakfast, almost the whole of which, after leaving Sherbrooke to the right, and entering upon uninhabited woods, was, even at this season, desperately bad. Matters after- wards improved in this point ; but the weather was intensely and oppressively hot. I refreshed myself by a swim in Oxford lake, near to which we stopped to dine. We put up for the night with the Rev. with I went ' yond, for me * the ch I pletion comin^ circuit from tl The s school- good f ^ thankf I visiting ford, t their c things vain, r ^ pleasai f mgiy ^ I built ? said tc VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 1^ )ned more td his tes- il, to their the time his study, ice to the the diffi- ty, height- l devoted- r of their churches ood con- out with chaplains, rvant fol- proceed a stage of St, almost )ke to the )ods, was, ers after- ither was d myself e stopped the Rev. Mr. Slack, at Granby, whose mission I shall have to speak of farther on, in describing my visit to it for the confirmation, after my return to these to wor- ship. * June 30. — Mr. and Mrs. Slack came on with us, he having it in view, as well as ourselves, to attend the anniversary meeting of the Church Society at Montreal. We breakfasted ten miles off, with the Rev. Mr. Johnson, at Abbotsford, and all went on together to Rougemont, eleven miles be- yond, where Mr. Johnson had made an appointnaent for me to preach. This place lay in our road, and by my affording a service there now, and visiting the church which is in progress towards its com- pletion, the necessity was dispensed with of my coming out of my way to do so, in the subsequent circuit for the confirmations. The young people from this place came to Abbotsford to be confirmed. The service was performed in a little crowded school-house, and the heat was overpowering. The good feeling, how^ever, of this congregation, their thankfulness for the attentions of Mr. Johnson in visiting them on Sunday afternoons from Abbots- ford, the exertions which they have made to get up their church, and the hope afforded, altogether, that things spiritual have not been sown unto them in vain, made our little delay in the place to be very pleasant and full of comfort. The church is exceed- ingly well situated upon the end of a hill. It is built of wood, according to a new method, wliich is said to have the advantage of much compactness, 16 BISHOP OF Montreal's and to promise durability — pieces of wood being laid together like bricks, within a frame. The sun beat upon us with an excessive power, as we proceeded to Chambly, where, after a most inconvenient delay at the ferry, we made another halt. From hence to Longueil, opposite to Mon- treal, there is a plank road of twelve miles in length. We were too late for the ferry- steamers to the city ; but Mr. Nicolls and myself hired an open boat, and were pulled across. We reached before midnight the great hotel, kept by an Italian of the name of Donegana, where, if I recollect rightly, 300 beds are made up. I was once the guest of that excellent man, Lord Seaton, in the same house, when it was hired for the residence of the Governor, but great additions have since been made to it. I have not noted the distance from Lennoxville to Montreal ; but I think our journey something exceeded forty miles each day. i STAY AT MONTREAL. July 1. — Anniversary of the Church Society. The meetings are held alternately at Quebec and Montreal; and it was this year the turn of the latter city. Service was held in the parish church, and a sermon for the occasion, which gave much satisfaction, was preached in pursuance of a request from myself, by the Rev. Mr. Townsend, one of the senior Sociel meetii went the m ously This as far of Ca the y Lawre occupi not y€ spirit blessir among by the workii Jul • busine took { little £ Jul Centr rule, ( ness ] ment Sw of thi parish Moun I VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 17 >od being ^^e power, r a most e another to Mon- in length, the city ; boat, and midnight name of 300 beds excellent en it was t)ut great nnoxville omething Society, ebec and 1 of the church, re much . request e of the seniors among the Canadian Missionaries of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The meeting was held in the National school-house, and went off well. Neither the service, however, nor the meeting were attended, by any means, so numer- ously as might have been expected and desired. This is in part to be accounted for by the fact that, as far as the merchants are concerned (and the cities of Canada are seats of commerce), the portion of the year during which the navigation of the St. Lawrence is open is one continued scene of hurried occupation. Still it must be confessed, that we have not yet stirred up among our people here the full spirit on behalf of their Church, which, by the blessing of God, we must hope to see prevalent among them ; but it is growing, and it may be seen by the reports of the Church Society, that we are working our way on with some encouragement. Jul^ 2. — This day was filled up by interviews on business with different clergymen and others, who took advantage for their several purposes, of my little sojourn in Montreal. Julf/ 3, and 4. — A periodical meeting of the Central Board of the Church Society was held, by rule, on the former of these two days, and the busi- ness not having been all got through, an adjourn-* ment took place to the latter. ,. .. Sunday, July 5 —At nine o*clock in the morning of this day, I admitted to Deacon's Orders, in the parish church of Montreal, my eldest son, A. W^ Mountain, B. A., of University College, Oxford. IS BISHOP OF MONTREAL S My family had come up from Quebec to witness the ceremony. I shall not obtrude upon the Society any reflections peculiar to this case as connected with paternal and domestic feeling ; but I bless God that I believe myself to have added on this occasion, to the number of labourers in the diocese, one who will not prove himself faithless. He was sent down immediately to take charge of the Quarantine Station below Quebec, under the auspices of the Church Society of the diocese. After the ordination, 1 had three engagements to preach on this day ; a charity sermon at the morn- ing service of Trinity chapel, where I also adminis- tered the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ; the afternoon sermon in the parish church, — and the evening sermon in St. Ann's chapel, situated in the suburb called Griffin-town. I " ' A MILITARY CONGREGATION. A fourth sermon w^as afterwards interposed be- tween the morning and afternoon services here mentioned. The chaplain to the Garrison, backed by Major Davis, who commands the 53d Light Infantry Regiment, made a special request to me that I would preach to the troops, for whom a service is held in the parish church at two o'clock. A certain number of men of the regiment whom I had confirmed in the winter, had since VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 19 itness the •ciety any cted with God that casion, to one who ent down e Station 5 Church sments to le morn- admin is- per ; the and the d in the )sed be- is here , backed i Light to me whom a o'clock. Bgiment d since become communicants, and had conducted them- selves in an exemplary manner. This was a par- ticular reason for the request, with which I, of course, complied. Much pains have been taken with these men, not only by the chaplain, (the Rev. D. Robertson) but also by Major Davis, and they have been carefully trained to chant tlie portions of the service proper to be so performed. I have seen the same thing in other corps, but signally in the second battalion of the 1st, or Royal Regiment, un- der the zealous and assiduous direction of Lieut. Whitmore of that regiment. I thus attended four services, and preached four times, after performing the ordination service in the morning, leaving oiF very nearly at the distance of twelve hours, from the time at which I began, and with hardly more inter- ruption through the whole day than was necessary for passing from church to church ; and it certainly was one of the hottest days that I remember ever to have felt in my life ; but I had great cause to be thankful at the close of it, for an additional proof of the physical fitness for the labours devolving upon me, with which it has pleased God to bless one of his servants, very sincerely and keenly conscious of much less aptitude for them in other and higher points of view. I felt no fatigue in the least degree hurtful or distressing. 20 BISHOP OP MONTREAL 8 . ,- I M^GILL COLLEGE. •hily 6. — I attended a meeting of the governors of M'Gill College at Montreal, held in the old French Government-house, now used for the offices of certain departments of the local administration. His Excellency Earl Cathcart presided, and we sat for five hours. There has been what is often called a fatality attending this institution — the bequest of the founder having been for about twenty years in litigation, and difficulties without end having since arisen to impede its prosperity. It is not yet settled how far the claim of the Church of England to give it the character of an episcopal institution can be asserted, or I should rather say, perhaps, how far it can be maintained. Its affiiirs, however, apart from this question, appear to be, at last, in better train ; but it is still weighed down by great embarrassments. It has, thus far, been chiefly efficient as a school of medicine. The buildings are partially completed, and are upon a handsome scale, and in a noble situa- tion, overlooking the city, and screened in the rear by the abrupt and wooded rise of the mountain which gives name to it, — i\\% royal mountain. The delays, discouragements and doubts which have ob- structed the advancement and clouded the prospects of this college, have been especially of a nature to forbid the idea of making it available as a nursery for the Church in the diocese ; and it is to the College at Lennoxville, which by the charter is under the „^ VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 21 [overnors the old be offices istrntion. 1(1 we sat en called equest of years in ng since 3t settled d to give I can be )w far it •art from jr train ; ssments. cbool of mpleted, )le situa- the rear lountain n. The lave ob- rospects ature to 'sery for College der the cornpl«te control of the Bishop, that we must look for tliis object. Perhaps, also, the situation of Lennox- ville is better suited to a course of preparation of the ministry, than the city of Montreal — a gay, wealthy, bustling, busy place, with a large garrison within its limits. Lennoxville, at present, is almost too obscure and backward a retreat ; but t)ie scene, and probably at no distant day, will be much changed. The rail-road which is to connect Montreal with Portland in the State of Maine, and so with the Atlantic, and which is now [October] proceeding, will pass di- rectly through it, and is expected to give a great impulse to the whole of the eastern townships. If M^Gill College should hereafter be so far under the direction of the Church of England, as to make it a propi-r seminary for a race of clergy in the country, it will then serve for, what it must be hoped will before any great length of time be, the diocese of Montreal : and Bishop's College will still be the reliance for that of Quebec. Ju/i/ 7. —The governors met again ; his Excel- lency Earl Cathcart again presiding, and we sat this day seven hours. The few remaining governors, some of the offices of those who were originially ex- officio governors, having, from the political changes of the country, ceased to exist, are widely dispersed ; the Chief Justice of Upper Canada, resident at Toronto, being one, and I myself resident at Quebec another ; and with all the occupations which fill the hands of both, it is but rarely that we can both be together in Montreal. When, therefore, a full meet- 22 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S ing can be got, it is necessary to push business through. Neither of us could prolong our stay in Montreal. His Excellency set us the example of great patience and close attention to all the details which came before us. I have, rayself, had but little share in the duties of the governors, — having been disqualified from taking my seat at the Board, by holding the title of Bishop of Montreal, till, for another object, a provincial statute was passed, giv- ing me generally, under this title, to all effects and purposes, the powers of the Bishop of Quebec. I declined also for some time afterwards, to act, for reasons with which I will not here trouble the Society, to i rent grou situi cipai but the yet how€ LA TRAIRIE — HEMMINGFORD. Julf/ 8. — I crossed over in the ferry-steamer to La Prairie, nine miles from Montreal, and at half- past ten, A. M. held service for the confirmation, in the singularly neat little church. Not more than fifty or sixty persons in all, were present, but I have omitted to note how many were confirmed. The place is one of the old Roman Catholic parishes, and there is an establishment of Jesuits in the villa^re. The Seigneurie formerly belonged to that order, forming part of their extensive estates in the country. The Church of England schoolmaster here has been greatly persecuted and very ill used, on account of his having, simply, by the merits of his school, drawn 1 VISITATION JOURNAL — 1 8 46. 23 \i business ur stay in xample of the details d but little iving been Board, by Z, till, for assed, giv- jfFects and 2uebec. I to act, for 'ouble the iteamer to id at half- ation, in Inore than tut I have led. The Wishes, and [le village. lat order, le country. has been iccount of lol, drawn to it some of the children of Roman Catholic pa- rents, — but he has, by God'3 help, maintained his ground. There is another church in this mission, situated some miles off at Longueil, and built prin- cipally at the charge of the proprietor of the Barony, but owing to the misconduct of the contractor, and the necessity of going to law with him, it has not yet been opened for divine service. Mr. Broome, however, the missionary, officiates regularly to a congregation who assemble in the school-house at La Fortue, besides serving the Church at La Prairie, and he appears to look forward with pain to the dis- continuance of his attendance there, which must follow when he shall have the two churches upon his hands. I had now commenced the series of confirma- tions to be performed upon this circuit, for wh a the clergy whom I was to visit had everywhere been making preparation among their flocks. In the evening of this day, Mr. Broome went on with me to Ilemmingford, distant twenty-three miles, where the Rev. Mr. Hazard resides. It was eleven o'clock at night when we reached the house. Nothing can be more confined or more humble than the accommodation enjoyed by himself and his lady, an English couple, occupying a diminutive sittino-- room, and still more diminutive bed-room in the house of a settler, through whose kitchen they must pass to have access to their own apartments. They seem, however, content, and regard their privations as things attaching characteristically to missionary 24 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S life. I have had many quarrels with the mission- aries and their ladies in mj opposition to the system of surrendering their own bed-room to tiieir Bishop, but all the arrangements having been made before- hand; they generally got the better of me. . .1 SHERRINGTON — ST. REMI. July 9. — We came back about five miles, over the same road, to Sherrington church, a good stone building, in which the people from all the mission, who could attend, were to meet me, and which was this day consecrated under the name of St. James's church, Mr Broome being still with me at the liev. Mr. Dawes', — (well remembered in all tliis tract of country as the first clergyman of the Cliurch who had charges in it, and who itinerated incessantly where three clergymen are now labouring with full hands,) — having come over from St. John to assist us. Eighteen persons were cor. '^»*med, — a consecra- tion of living temples to the Lord, — a little band, but a band I would trust, of believers, built up as a spiritual house to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. In country places, and especially where the services are so protracted as they were upon the present occasion, I frequently combine in one the address to the persons confirmed with a plain and familiar sermon, for the congrega- tion ; and this may vary appro[)riately be done when the two particular ceremonies here mentioned are ram large VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 25 he mission- tlie system eir Bishop, ade before- : fi 5 . miles, over good stone he mission, . which was St. James's at the liev. his tract of ^liurch who incessantly ig with full n to assist a consecra- little band, uilt up as a acceptable laces, and tracted as frequenily confirmed congrega- Idone when tioned are performed in immediate succession. After I had preached in this way, we all went out to conse- crate the burying-ground. This is a remarkably flat and uninteresting part of the country, and our drive in the afternoon to St. R^mi, was not very comfortable, — a broiling sun over our heads, and a smothering dust raised by our vehicle, which was a rude and huge lumber waggon without any kind of springs. Mr. Mezart came with me. The distance is eighteen miles, but we made it twenty-four, by missing our road, and hav- ing to retrace our way. July 10. — Here, in another Roman Catholic parish, I ministered again to the little flock of Our own church people, of whom I confirmed seven in their beautifully neat little church, and I consecrated the building, which is of stone and well finished, but it is only 32 feet long, by 26 in width, in the exte- I'ior walls. I preached everywhere, and it is not necessary to go on making special mention of my performances in this way. Between eighty and ninety persons were present. After service I left St. R^mi with Mr. Plees, the missionary, and pro- ,ceeded to Russell-tow^n Flats, fourteen miles, pass- ing through Norton Creek, when we dined at the miller's, a respectable Englishman, with whom Mr. Plees at present makes his home. The continued and oppressive heat of the atmosphere now vented itself in a very violent thunder storm, with driving rain and hail. Some of the hail-stones were so large that they were measured out of curiosity, but c 26 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S I cannot state the measurement. After the hail- storm, during which we were under shelter, we went on, encountering some more thunder showers upon our way to Russell-town Flats, where we slept. Jul^ 11. — At Russell-town Flats, there is a wooden building, well situated upon a small emi- nence overlooking the village, fitted up for public worship ; but, as is not uncommon in the neighbour- ing states of America, unappropriated to the use of any particular body of Christians. At present we have the benefit of it, and there are not wanting examples in the diocese of buildings put up in this kind of way, which have passed ultimately into our hands. In this meeting-house, for such it must be called, I had a congregation of one hundred and fifty persons and upwards, and twenty-three were con- firmed. I then went on seven miles, to Russell-town village, and inspected the brick church there in pro- gress, under the direction of Mr. Flees, — after which I went immediatelyon withMr. Morris, the missionary of Huntingdon, who had come over toine, taking leave of Mr. Flees and his extensive mission, the labours of which are detailed in a former journal, and there- fore, as well as other labours for the same reason, not specified here. Thirty persons were confirmed in his mission. Ht a»' •* VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 27 the hail- *, we went rera upon slept, lere is a mall emi- for public leioflibour- o the use Vt present )t wanting up in this y into our it must be id and fifty were con- issell-town ere in pro- ifter which missionary aking leave he labours and there- me reason, )nfirmed in HUNTINGDON — DISPUTES ABOUT CHURCH SITES. I was met at a spot known by the name of Hind- man's Corner, and lying within the charge of Mr. Morris, by a deputation of settlers with a long repre- sentation in favour of a site of that place, for a pro- jected church, in preference to a site chosen by another party at the burying-ground within the settlement which is called the Gore. This opposi- tion of sentiment respecting the sites of churches, as men are swayed, in the very work of religion, and in providing the very place where they are to approach their God, by their own interest or their own convenience, is a feature of frequent occurrence in newly settled portions of the country, and one with which it is very difficult, as well as painful, to deal. In some cases, indeed, it may be cut short by de- ciding the matter peremptorily by authority, ant} leaving the dissatisfied party, (it having been ap- parent that they are wrong,) to come to a better mind, or to manifest their discontent in their own way. But it is often a matter of much perplexity to balance the conflicting claims : and there must always be an anxiety, which is very apt to be disappointed, to reconcile the minds of men together, and to per- suade the defeated party, since one must be defeated, to acquiesce with Christian disinterestedness and renunciation of self, or voluntarily to withdraw their own proposal. I have too often urged in vain the J example of Abraham in his transaction with Lot, J 28 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S and the charge of our Lord, if any man will compel us to go a mile to go with him twain, which bears a very direct application to the question of having to go a mile or two more or a mile or two less to church. Yet not always in vain, or not wholly so ; and sometimes with good effect, which has not been, at the moment, apparent. In the present instance, however, the dispute has now operated for some years, to the absolute suspension of the undertaking. Yet there is a well-affected congregation at the Gore, comprehending almost the whole population of the settlement. I was obliged to say that since they could not agree otherwise, each party must en- deavour to build a church ; but this w^ith divided resources, they must be long in accomplishing. Per- haps a change may yet come over their minds. I slept at the very small but very neat parsonage of Huntingdon, distant twenty-four miles from our point of starting in the morning. Sundaf/, July 12. — At the morning service in Huntingdon church, there were nineteen persons confirmed. The church was crowded to excess : many persons were standing in the aisle : others en the outside at the open windows. In the after- noon I proceeded eleven miles, to the Gore, where 1 confirmed thirteen persons, and preached again to a densely jammed auditory in the log school-house, with quite a crowd on the outside who could not gain admission. The difference is apt to be ex- tremely marked in Canada, between Sunday and week-day services, especially during the season whei on. andc i 0' man*! peop] partj maki place Ini very to the The £ these of pi was t Ju town perso were troub allott what( point for ai made Ju quay ! St. L ■I some ho m ■■* VISITATION JOURNAL — 1 846. 29 ill compel 3h bears a having to ;o less to vholly so j not been, : instance, for some dertaking. : the Gore, ;ion of the since they must en- th divided bing. Per- inds. parsonage s from our service in m persons excess : e : others 1 the after- 'e, where 1 again to a lool-house, could not to be ex- nday and he season :, when the successive labours of the field are going on. That season is precious, and there is a full and constant demand for all the hands that can be had. On my way to the Gore, I was joined at Hind- man's Corner by a long train of waggons full of people. This, however, was regarded by the other party as a concerted arrangement for the object of making a demonstration to support the claim of that place to the church site. Instead of returning to Huntingdon, I went by a very new and rough road opened through the woods, to the mission of Ormstown, nine miles from the Gore. The sun-set viewed through the long straight vista of these tall woods had a striking effect. The number of persons confirmed in the Huntingdon mission was thirty-two. Jul^ 13. — Morning service was held in Orms- town church for the confirmation, and thirty-seven persons brought from different parts of the mission, were recipients of the rite. There had been some troubles in this mission, and I had accordingly allotted the whole remainder of the day to receive whatever representations, and investigate whatever points might be found to demand notice, or to call for animadversion, but no grounds for either were made to appear. Jult/ 14. — I proceeded by the stage to Chateau- quay Basin, and then took the steamer across Lake * St. Louis to La Chine, the whole distance beins: something more than thirty miles. I found my way .to my well-known quarters at La Chine Grove, 30 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S where I was received by my kind and Christian hosts, Col. Wilgress and his family, and passed the night under their roof. JuIt/ 15. — This morning early, I took the steamer at La Chine for Carillon upon the Ottawa, and went at once to the village of St. Andrew's, about ^i'ty miles from La Chine, where again I fell into the arms of a familiar hospitality in the house of Col. M*Donnel. Service was held for the confirmation at four o'clock, and thirty persons were confirmed. An organ has been procured for the church in this place, and chanting has been introduced, a practice which I hope will ultimately find its way, although it will not do so in my day, into every church of the diocese. Between two and three hundred persons were in church. In the evening I dined with my hosts, and some clerical brethren at the house of the Rev. W. Abbott, the missionary of St. Andrew's, beautifully situated among fine groves, upon a commanding eminence, and of gradual ascent, looking down upon the wind- ings of the pretty North River, upon which the vil- lage is situated, with a view of the Ottawa itself beyond. my c all ir paste corap . unsig I fitted I of w I numl J prop. I upon THE GORE. Julf/ 16. — I set out early for the mission of the Rev. J. Mc*Master, bearing the same name of the Gore, which belongs to a portion of the Hunting- VISITATION JOURNAL — 184G. 31 Christian passed the he steamer , and went ibout fifty 1 into the se of Col. nfirmation confirmed. rch in this a practice , although urch of the ed persons and some W, Abbott, \y situated eminence, I the wind- ich the vil- :tawa itself sion of the ame of the i Hunting- don mission already noticed ; in fact, it is a name applied to places which, when townships are sur- veyed and laid out, form a remnant or strip of land resembling what is called a gore in making up dresses. I found some little improvement since my last visit in that rude and secluded spot (which forms the termination of settlement in this direction) as well as in the approaches to it, but it took us, with our best efforts, four good hours and a half to reach it from St. Andrew's, from which it is considered to be distant sixteen miles. I was indebted to Colonel M'Donnel for the arrangements made for my conveyance. It is a blessing to see a church at all in such a place, and to be greeted by a resident pastor in carrying the episcopal ministrations so completely into the woods ; but the church is an unsightly edifice in its exterior, and very roughly fitted up within. About 150 persons were present, of whom thirteen were confirmed. I considered the number of candidates for the rite very small in proportion to the population, and felt myself called upon to speak strongly to persons presumed to be present, who so little appreciated the ordinances of their church, and made so ill a return to the Society which maintains a Mission among them, as to remain unconfirmed when they might avail them- selves of the stated opportunities put in their way. I pointed out to them that it was only out of a con- cern for their own good that I spoke ; an 1, as an evidence of an unaw^akened state, that I noticed 32 BISHOP OP 3I0NTREAL*S their neglect; and I am not without a hope that by the Divine grace and blessing, the question may have been suggested to some minds in such a way as to afford the hope of a fuller compliance with the next periodical call of the Church. Tlie Rev. Mr. Pyke, of Vaudreuil, was with me, and we got back to Colonel M*Donners at half-past nine, when, in spite of my entreaties in the morning that the family would not wait for us, we sat down regularly to their dinner. iiite an iood si I rtakii aptain M emba £sttmt distance tie nes Ijhich s ly-tow] e Rev GRENVILLE. Julf/ 17. — I was driven over to Grenville, fifteen miles, accompanied by Mr. Abbott, the missionary of that place, his brother Mr. W. Abbott, missionary of St. Andrew's, and Mr. Pyke, missionary at Vaudreuil Land. Mr. Abbott having, as the Society has been made aware, a curate, Mr. Sutton, whose situation he makes equal to that of an ordinary missionary, under an arrangement made, with my sanction, for one year. There were four clergymen present, and some part in the service was assigned to each ; the sermon as well as the administration of confirmation being reserved to myself. There were, perhaps, eighty persons present, of whom thirteen were confirmed. The hay-making was found everywhere to thin the attendance on week- days. There is no particular change in the ,1 Sand #d el. ^tawa, *|10NV tY %vas t il^ce, y\ #ginal fore II to be [esent [r. Jol ternoc fssion iventu VISITATION JOURNAL — 184G. 33 ope til at 3tion may ih a way mce with riio Rev. d we got ne, when, that the regularly s^ate and prospects of the Church in the neighbour- hood since my last report. In tlie afternoon, after Airtaking of some refreshment at the house of Captain Kains, a half-pay officer of the Royal Navy, i embarked in the steamer for By-town, which is distnnt from Grenville seventy miles, in which whole fistance we have no church or clergymen. %July 18. — I passed this day, which was an open one, tie next being Sunday and allotted to the mission #hich succeeds on this route to that of Grenville, at fiy-town in the diocese of Toronto, with my friend tke Rev. Mr. Strong and his family. lie, fifteen nissionary nissionary ionary at \, as the rate, Mr. I to that rangement here were ;he service ell as the jserved to [is present, ay-making idance on ige in the AYLMER — CONFIRMATION. ,|; Sunday, July 19. — I crossed over by the superb ^d elegant suspension bridge which spans the Ottawa, in a long succession of arches, immediately bf low the magnificent Chaudidre Falls, to Hull, where l|was to preach in the morning. The state of this j^tce, which exhibits the failure of great and not flfiginally ill-conceived speculations,! have described llffore in a former journal. About fifty persons, which il to be considered a large congregation here, were I^esent in the ample church. I then proceeded with [r. Johnston, the missionary, to Aylmer, when the ternoon service and the confirmation for the whole Ission were to be held. We met with some mis- Iventures on the way, for Mr. Johnston's carriage 34 BISHOP OF 3I0NTREAL S having broken down, we procured a huge lumber waggon, and had not gone far in this, when, in de- scending a hill with a sharp edge, being built up, on one side, like a wall with the lime-stones which abound in the place, the reins broke, and the man who was driving, pulling with all his might to stop the horses in their accelerating downward course, and having only one rein to act with, pulled them necessarilj side-ways till the wheels were upon the very verge of the wall. Mr. Johnston, with extraordinary activity, made a violent forward spring out of tlit waggon, and seized the horses by the head just in time, by a moment, to prevent our going over tlit precipitous side of the hill. It is slow work to build churches with tlu resources which are at the command of our people in Canada. Three years and something more hac 6lapsed since I laid the corner stone of the churcl at Aylmer, with the customary formalities. It hac not since made sufficient progress to have beer opened for Divine service, although our churche here are very commonly used long before they an finished. By great, and indeed by forced, exertion- it was upon this occasion roughly fitted up for tht purpose. The arrangements, however, were ver) judiciously made, both for accommodating the con gregation and for preserving the decency and so lemnity of the ceremonial ; and there is no othe: place, which could have been had, sufficient to contaii anything approaching to the number of persons win were now brought together. There were fully thret 1 liundre jprmed. Jnent i ihe evi fecipiei law eit than 01 Ion firm Into th( in perp |lal)le t< |t cann( |ion of (^ calcu Ipon til |fe. Ii :ercis( period linking le best laving )wn, 1 lere, i >r his icause consi IS voi lornini iy doir jrvices get 4 VISITATION JOURNAL— 1846. 35 igc lumber liundred present, of whom twenty-seven were con- len, in de- firmed. I generally find a very reverential deport- juilt up, on |nent upon the occasions of confirmation, and often ich abound |he evidences of deep and unatFected feeling in the n who was Recipients of the rite, but I do not know that I ever the horses law eitlier one or the other more strongly marked and having |Iian on this day. I do conceive great hopes from necessaril) lonfirmations. What the inspired Apostles brought very verge into the Church and delivered down to be observed traordinarj jjn perpetuity, may, like all religious ordinances, be out of tilt lable to abuse, or degenerate into empty form, but ead just in |t cannot be unblessed if used in faith and prepara- ig over tilt jpon of heart ; and this ordinance, upon the face of it, |b calculated to impress feelings of a holy seriousness s with tilt Ipon the mind, and to promote holy purposes in the our people ||fe. It also affords admirable opportunity for the g more hac |xercise of pastoral care over the young at a critical eriod of their lives, and I have the comfort of inking that my clergy very generally improve it to e best pur{)ose. The Rev. Mr. Strong read prayers, aving hurried up, through heat and dust, from By- wn, between his morning and evening services ere, and having contrived to make some provision r his intermediate service performed to the troops, cause he happened to receive the information that consequence of Mr. Johnston having totally lost s voice by a cold, I had performed the whole orning services at Hull, and he wished to prevent y doing the same thing in the case of the afternoon rvices at Aylmer. He had just time, to a nicety, get back for his evening duties. I felt most the churd ;ies. It hac have beeE ur churche ore they an 3d, exertion; 1 up for thf , were ver ng the con jncy and so is no othe: nt to contaii persons wlii :e fully thre 36 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S sincerely obliged to him, but much regretted that lie should have been subjected, for no necessity, to so much trouble and fatigue. Aylmer is distant about eight miles from By-town. I returned from churoli to pass the evening and to sleep at the Rev. Mr. Johnston's. JOUUXEY TO CLARENDON. Jahj 20. — I rose at half-past-four and called up my servant, and he then roused the household of Mr, Johnston, who, as this was one of the portions of mj route in which I was unattended by any chaplain, kindly undertook to accompany me to Clarendon, We drove down to the landing, and took the steamei up the lake, to Fitzroy Harbour, at its other extre mity, about thirty miles from Aylmer. Here 1 learnt tlmt the new iron steamer upon the upper lake separated from this by the transverse row of fall: called the Chats and the rapids above them, was foi the present immoveably aground. It now seeme: very doubtful whether it would be possible for me t( keep my appointment the next day at Clarendoii and if I should be after my time there, the whol( chain of my following appointments, up to the las day of August, would necessarily be broken. It hat happened in this very same instance, upon my visi three years ago, that by a series of untoward occur rences upon the route, (described in my Journa published by the Society,) I had been thrown behinc VISITATION JOURNAL 184G. 37 tted that lie essity, to so istant about from cliurdi e Rev. Mr. id called up ehold of Mr, )rtions of mj ny chaplain, ) Clarendon, ; the steamei other extre er. Here 1 e upper lake row of fall: hem, was loi now seemet ble for me t( it Clarendon re, the wholf p to the las ken. It hat pon my visi oward occur my Journa irown behinc tiy time, and the people who had assembled to meet tie, could not be all collected again when I arrived. I was therefore doubly anxious to push my way on ; iut from the paucity of hands, the busy and pressing l|ibours of the hay harvest, and the absorption of all ^e people immediately upon the spot, in occupations connected with the lumber business, it began to ippear hopeless to make arrangements which would |arry me to Clarendon within my time, A bark (Kinoe was at last found disposable, and a couple of iiands belonging to the idle steamer, who happened lb be about the place, were obligingly given to me J J her Captain. We walked across the two portages hich lie between the lakes, and proceeded in the «noe to Sands Point, where we were most hospitably iceived by a Highland Roman Catholic family, the leads of which were absent on a visit to Scotland, ' . . . id after drinking tea with them exchanged our moe for their sail-boat, in which we were accom- mied across to Bristol landing by two respectable jrsons connected with the family. Bristol is within le mission of Mr. Neve, and here he was to have let us from Clarendon. But it was dusk as we iared the shore, and we landed at night-fall. Mr. [eve, who had arrived at two o'clock, had at last ven me up in despair and returned home. We 'ocured quarters for the night, at some distance from le landing, in the log -house of a Mr. Cameron; the jcoramodation was rough but it was freely and indly afforded. The whole length of this day's lurney was forty-five miles. 38 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S July 21.— I sent my servant off on horseback soon after four in the morning, to the house of a Mr, Heath, three miles up the lake, (who had assisted me in the means of proceeding, upon my last visit,) to procure, as he might, similar facilities now, and to announce my purpose of coming over to breakfast He returned, as he had gone, upon Mr. Cameron'; horse, leading two others obtained from two different houses — a saddle, in which article they were botli deficient, having been borrowed at a third, with the promise exacted that it should be returned at night, We got a cart from one of Mr. Cameron's neigh- bours, for the portmanteau and bags, and in this mj servant rode. Mr. Johnson and I mounted tlu other horses. Mr. Heath was absent from home, and his wife, having been just confined, was in bed: i good breakfast was, nevertheless, ready for us. i ride of six miles more through the woods, directlj back from the lake, brought us to the church. "W( stopped at a house in the neighbourhood where Mr, Fallum, the first missionary, had boarded ; and hen Mr. Neve, who was some few miles off, shortly after- wards met us. The confirmation was held about twc o'clock, and fifty- seven persons, forming about orif fourth of the whole congregation present, were adraittec to the rite. The mission, which comprises three town shipSjCanexhibit one hundred and fifty communicant; at one time ; and thus the word and the ordinances oi the living God, with all the countless blessings whici flow from the established provisions of religion in \ community, are ministered by means of the Societj \Y the ^le wil Jenerat |aving ibey wi I The llomplet H saw it gardens atter i5/. out [en era 1 Chris Ipiis aid, ^ decen lliission. |f coum e min )mpan fiir as len se id my famero July upo >wn th VISITATION JOURNAL — ]846. 39 seback soon 3 of a Mr, assisted me St visit,) to ow, and to breakfast , Cameron'} wo different ' were botli rd, with tht 3d at night on's neigh- i in this m] lounted tlit n home, and 3 in bed : a for us. il ►ds, directlj lurch, yfi 1 where Mr, i ; and hert hortly after- Id about twc g about oiif ereadmittec ; three town >mmunicant' )rdinancesol ssings whicl religion ins the Society r the Propagation of the Gospel, to the scattered ^lembers of the Church who break their way into k\e wilderness, and plant there the fruit of many fenerations, to the whole succeeding series of which, Aaving been thus helped themselves in the outset, ?4iey will hand down the heritage of faith. 4 The church at Clarendon is not yet properly iompleted; in fact, nothing has been done to it since J saw it before. I had an interview with the church- i^ardens, Mr. Neve being also present, in which this iiatter was discussed, and I have since promised ^5/. out of a sum of 100/., placed at my disposal for eneral purposes by the Society for the Promotion Christian Knowledge, upon condition that, with is aid, the congregation w^ill finish the building in decent manner. It is the only church in the ission. Mr. Neve officiates over a wide ranjye country, and has several week-day appointments ill school-houses, which it is his practice to fix for ihe minor festivals of the Church. We were ac- mpanied back by him and the churchwardens, 5 far as Mr. Heath's, where we drank tea, and we en separated, bidding each other God speed, — I d my attendants proceeding to sleep again at Mr. ameron's, which we reached at 9 o'clock. RETURN TO BY-TOWN. July 22. — I was still as dependent as in coming ), upon whatever means I could lay hold of, to go )wn the upper lake in time for the ulterior prosecu- 40 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S tion of my journey, as I had laid it down ; and there was very little promise of any conveyance by whicli I could possibly effect the object. I am happy, however, to record another instance of the kind alacrity manifested by the inhabitants in facilitatino the progress of the ministers of religion. While we were at Mr. Heath's, the evening before, a Mr, Cooper, who is connected with him, and is engaged in different concerns in the neighbourhood, under- took to bring his skiff for me to the landing below Mr. Cameron's, in the morning, and to take me down the lake to the head of the upper portage. In the height of pressing business, he sacrificed his own time, and that of a man in his employ, to whom he would not allow me to make any compensation; and we embarked w^ith him as soon as it was fairly day, The little skiff had a pair of sculls and a couple d paddles ; he managed the former principally him- self, and it w^as owing to the vigour with which he pulled, that we made the distance of fifteen mile?, against a head wind, in two hours and forty minutes. We were thus enabled, after crossing the portages, to reach Fitzroy Harbour in very good time, and to dress and breakfast before the departure of the steamer, which came up from Aylmer ; after reaching which place, I went on in the stage Ic By-town ; and, after dining with Mr. Strong, walked down at night, to go on board the steamer for Grenville, which was to start at day-break. We encountered, at the place of embarkation, the close of a row among some Irish rafts-people and others, brutalit in By-1 the me ties to ] to whic itants he attai o feroc nhapp; y lead umber€ imong to heigh ^e are ] ;nce of appy c he laml incl the ittle ch'i July went ( anot reuil. yke, V ence of curt at if tlie sc The ca: too narro hich jro i';t VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 41 ; and there 3 by whicli am happy, f the kind facilitatino )n. While fore, a Mr, is engaged 3od, under- dins: below ke me down re. In the id his own to whom he sation; and » 3 fairly day, a couple oi ipally hira- h which he fteen mile?, •ty minutes, le portages, ;ime, and to ure of the Tier ; after he stage to r. Strong, :he steamer day-break •kation, the -people and lothers, in which a man had been treated with great jbrutality. Scenes of this nature are sadly familiar in By-town ; and sadly inefficient, apparently, are he means at the command of the local authori- ies to repress the wanton and unproyoked outrages which the most peaceable and respectable inha- itants have, upon occasions, been subjected from he attacks of banded ruffians, accustomed, perhaps, ferocious excitement in the quarrels of their own inhappy country, and confirmed in lawless habits y leading the loose and adventurous life of the umberer. Such exhibitions of fallen human nature, mong men carrying the name of Christians, serve heighten our appreciation of all the means which e are permitted to employ for extending the influ- nce of the gospel of peace, and advancing the appy consummation when the wolf shall dwell with he lamb, and the leopar^d shall lie down with the hid, md the young lion and the failing together^ and a Hile child shall lead them, Jtdy 23. — Leaving the steamer at Grenville, went on in the stage to Carillon,* there embarking another steamer, which dropped me at Vau- reuil. I was met at the landing by the Rev. Mr. *yke, who drove me a few short miles to the resi- ence of his father, a retired Judge of the Supreme )ourt at Montreal. Nothing can exceed the beauty f the scenery in this part of the country, where the ? t The canal here constructed t^ good many years ago to avoid the rapids too narrow to admit any of thelsteam vessels, except the little tenders, lich fro familiarly by the name of puffers. iH 42 BISHOP OF MONTREAt/s Ottawa expands into the lake of the two mountains. Our road lay above the bank which overhangs the water, and among handsome trees, which give it a character of rural seclusion : we then ascend the eminence, on the crest of which the Judge's house is situated, commanding a magnificent view. In the evening, the young ladies of the family gratified us by u simple performance of sacred music. July 24. — I had travelled much in hot weather and often in dusty roads, and I felt thankful to stroll down, in the 6arly prime, and surrounded by the loveliness of nature, to a clean, retired, sandy beach, the immediate descent to which was down a steep and richly-wooded bank ; and there to indulge myself with a swim in the beautiful expanse of water to which it formed the border. Service was performed in the forenoon at the church, which stands just above the bank here described. About seventy persons were present and twenty-six v/ere confirmed. Mr. Pyke had exerted himself to get the church ready for conse- cration ; and it was a s^ibject of some discussion, and some doubt, whether I should not proceed t( consecrate it at once, but it still wants some ap- pendages to make it in all points complete; and Mr P. entertaining the hope that he shall be enabled ti procure them by next summer, I promised, if ?i permitted, to come up at that time for the specii purpose of performing the ceremony. Mr. Mc'Tavish, agent of the Hudson's Ba; Company, who lives opposite to Vaudieuil, at tlit, Indian I this cor I with a \ I of chur( J In th JLa Chii [carriage I Hudson I quarters [here we I I had er I River F I Simpsor during \ [who also I not engi ihe terri Wilgresi friends \ was amo their se dispositii in conta* circle, it been fot fter o{ ontentSj f death y havii ar befoi avant, VISITATION JOURNAL 1846. 43 lountains. langs the give it a scend the ;e*s house T, In the •atified us t weather il to stroll ed by the ady beach, vn a steep o indulge e of water on at the jank here ■e present, Pyke ha^ for conse- discussion proceed tf ; some ap- and M enabled ti lised, if Si the specia Ison's Ba) uil, at til 1 • I Indian village on the lake shore, is a member of i this congregation, and he has presented the church I with a handsome altar-cloth, and some other articles I of church furniture. In the afternoon I went down in the steamer to JLa Chine, where, upon landing, I was met by the I carriage of Sir George Simpson, Governor of the f Hudson's Bay Territory, and went to take up my quarters at the Hudson's Bay House. My hosts here were Mr. and Mrs. Finlayson, whose hospitality I had enjoyed in the same way at one of the Red River Forts, in my expedition of 1844 ; and Lady Simpson, sister of the latter, who lives with them during her present sojourn in Canada. Sir George, I who also makes his home here for the present, when not engaged upon his official tours, was away in the territory. My old La Chine host. Colonel Wilgress, the Rev. Mr. Bond, and a small circle of friends were assembled to pass the evening ; and I was among persons with whom, from their manners, their sentiments, their principles, and their kindly dispositions towards myself, it was refreshing to be in contact. While I was sitting in this cheerful circle, ray letters by the English mail, which bad been forwarded from Quebec, were brought in. After opening three or four, and glancing at their oontents, I came upon one which carried the tokens of death. I soon learnt the reason ; it told me of iiy having lost a brother, younger than myself, but ar before me in the Christian race ; the rector of avant, in Hampshire, a place which will long bear 44 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S the traces of the blessing of Heaven upon his faith- ful and incessant labours, and one, in which, among other efforts, he was assiduous in promoting a feeling of interest among his parishioners for the Colonial Church, and her fostering protectress, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. This circumstance may excuse the passing tribute which I here pay to his memory. He has mentioned to me at different times in his letters the operations conducted in his parish and neighbourhood, in behalf of the Society ; and he was personally one of the benefactors of Bishop's College, Lennoxville, having desired me to send home for execution, at his cost, whatever deed might be necessary for the conveyance of a portion out of his share of certain lands belonging to the family townships, asking whether he ic " not to have the privilege of thus contributing to the Church in Canada;" and ending with these words, "And I beg you to take what you please, only stipulating that you do not make me niggardly." This was only intended to be between himself and me, and I should not have felt it permissible to make it known in other quarters while he was spared to me. LA CHINE. Jtdf/ 2o. — The confirmation at La Chine wai held in the forenoon. Consideriil)!.- iit)i)rovement have been made in the interior lilting up of tlif little church sinee my la^t visit. Yvom flftv to sixtT persoi confir took r I the sa .11 -,t I train Ithree ] fthe Et I Sw fhas be< ation )awes ^ith tl statedly ) upper preac ibout t I wo hu it the f [he adji jhe Re> Jonside )awes he 60tli Betw tternoc 'hompg fe hoi Iso bui icident ''e hav khed VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 4o his faith- 3h, among g a feeling e Colonial society for cum stance lere pay to it different jted in his e Society ; efactors of lired me to ,tever deed if a portion the family :o have the Church in s, "And I stipulating This was id me, and to make it spared to Chine wai );M*ovement U[) of tlif fifty to sixt^ \ persons were present, of whom twenty-one were j confirmed. After their confirmation, Mr. Finlayson itook me on in the carriage to Montreal, and I crossed the same afternoon to La Prairie, where I took the I train for St. John, distant, by this route, thirty- I three miles from La Chine, and became the guest of fthe Rector. I Sunday i July 2Q^ — The church of St. John fhas been recently struck by lightning, and the reno- fvation of the shattered steeple was proceeding. Mr. awes was in the building at the time, together ith the body of his communicants, who meet him tatediy before the administration of the Lord's upper ; and they had an escape next to miraculous. 4 preached twice in this church in the morning, to %bout three hundred, and in the evening to about wo hundred persons. Fifty-seven were confirmed t the former service, of whom eighteen came from he adjacent village of Christieville, under charge of he Rev. W. Thompson. There would have been a lonsiderable addition of military persons, whom Mr. awes had prepared, but for the sudden removal of le 60th Rifles from the station. Between these two services, I went over in the ternoon to preach at Christieville, and found Mr. hompson in occupation of the newly-built parson- e house, erected by the late Major Christie, who so built and endowed the church. And here an cident took place which was wholly new in Canada. e have, from time to time, in a number of de- ched instances, received Roman Catholics in this 4(> BISHOP OF MONTREAL S reconcii other d and he Eunuch liaving call him provide! nut intc i ferrinor I engaged f occasion at comf country, some of whom have been French Canadians, into the communion of our own Ciiurch, and among these there have been highly satisfactory cases. But the practice was never introduced of their making uu open recantation. In the present instance, however. Mr. Thompson brought to me a respectable Freneli Canadian, the head of a family in the neighbour- hood, who having been led, after much faithful prayer and careful deliberation, and most diligent |the neig search, to embrace the tenets of the Church of Eng- 1 diligent) land, conceived spontaneously a decided and strong -'and the desire to make a public profession of the trutlij which had become dear to his heart. I had half an hour's conversation with him before service, and I received a most favourable impression of his tho- rough sincerity, and of his whole character as fi*| brought servant of God, following the convictions of hi? I — his re conscience in opposition to worldly influences. No- I being n thing could be further removed from all flourish ot j pressed frothy excitement than his deportment and conver fan act ( sation : there was a sedateness and quiet soliditi stamped upon his countenance and pervading hi; Jhelptoh manner, which, if I do not wholly mistake, gave the 1 nance of earnest of a firm adherence to the undisguised trutli- fassailed. of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the apostolic com' munion of the Church which he was about formal^ to join. His mind had been originally opened undei the teaching of the Divine Spirit, by the perusal o the Bible, and thus conversing with his God througf Ipersons the medium of His own book, he soon found that tlit lof this system in which he had been educated could not bt Jthemselv he could [the pray' [form, wh ^ion, we VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. anudians, id among ases. But naking an however, le Frencli eighbour- ii faithful reconciled with the sayings of that book ; but no other digested systera had presented itself to him, and he was a good deal in the situation of the Eunuch, — wanting the appointed help of the Church, having unformed views, and not knowing what to call himself or what course he ought to take, — when, providentially, the English Liturgy, in French, was r I nut into his hands by a Jerseyman, who settled in t diligent I the neighbourhood, and he set to work to compare it ih of Eng- 1 diligently with the Bible — studying every part of it, nd strong and the Thirty-nine Articles in particular, and re- the trutlij Jferring all through to texts of scripture. While id half an I engaged in these researches, he had interviews upon ice, and I | occasion with some of our clergy, and having arrived f his tho- I at complete satisfaction of mind, he was finally icter as ii*| brought up to the point which I have stated above, I — his recantation, however, as I have there said, being neither suggested to him nor in any way pressed upon him. He told me that he felt it to be an act of duty to make this good profession before many witnesses, and that he looked to it also as a help to hold him to his adopted faith, in his mainte- nance of which he knew that he should be severely ised truth: I assailed. His recantation was made in French, (for stolic com 1*^6 could not speak a syllable of English,) between it formally i ^^^^ prayers and the sermon : but those parts of the form, which most directly concerned the congrega- tion, were read in English. About two hundred 3d throng! Ipersons were present to witness my solemn reception id that tht ' of this new brother into fellowship of faith with uld not h i themselves. ms of hii nces. No- flourish ot id conver et soliditj iciing liii », gave th 3ned undei perusal o 48 BISHOP or MONTREAL S An example of conversion, closely similar to thia in its circumstances, (with the exception of the re- cantation,) took place some years ago in the mission of Abbotsford. The subject of it gave his Frencli copy of the prayer-book, upon his death-bed, as a memorial, to the Rev. Mr. Johnson, who keeps it aj a treasure and a trophy of the victory of divine truth, In the neighbourhood of that mission there has re- cently been a considerable movement among some French Canadians in favour of the Church of Eng- land, and I have sent up, by desire, a supply oi French publications of the S. P. C. K. and some few others,* for their use. Wherever there is a door thus opened, I conceive that it is our duty to enter in, and I regard it as a call to us which, according to our ability, we are bound to answer : but the successive governors of the Church of England in Canada have been unadvisedly censured by some impatient spirits, not perhaps fully masters of their subject, for not having carried the war right and left, with colours flying and trumpets sounding, into the camp of the Roman Catholic population — a pro- ceeding which, even if God had placed resources at command by which it could have been attempted, would, in the judgment of many persons, not want- ing in zeal for the truth of God, have served rather to retard than advance the cause. But it is well known that with the utmost toil and watchfulness, * They were provided with Bibles before. One of the tracts was a translation made here of a little work ou the Society's list, " The Foot Man's Preservative against Popery." and w means propel the inl try ha often 1 ill-pro indiffe ments lowers. conside ing of I that CI ^ decenci J and, al I shown the hal ] faith fa Imendat I fail of |notonl I Rome, joperati iciples, been Ui It 13, t prospei sheep, were, n — since ist so fi i VISITATION JOUUNAL — 1846. 49 lar to this of the re. the mission his French i-bed, as a keeps it a^ vine truth, jre has re- nong some ch of Eng- supply oi i some few is a door ty to enter accordini! ir : but the England in d by some TS of their ' right and inding, into ion — a pro •esources at attempted, , not want- rved rather t it is well itchfulness, lie tracts was a list, " The Pool ml with the most strained efforts to eke out the means at their disposal, in order to cover our own ^ proper ground, those who have been charged with the interests of the Church of England in this coun- try have not been able to accomplish this point ; and often have had anxiety and work enough to keep the ill-provided and dispersed members of that Church, I in different places, from being ensnared by the entice- ments of Rome, and absorbed in the mass of her fol- lowers. And I think that it has not been sufficiently ; considered by some parties, that the effectual plant- ing of the Church of England, and the exhibition of that Church under a favourable aspect in the sober decencies of her ritual and her well-ordered services, and, above all, in the fruits of scriptural religion, shown in the temper, the dealings, the principles, the habits, the whole character and conduct of her faithful and consistent members, constitute a recom- mendation of their belief which cannot and does not fail of its effect upon the Roman Catholic mind, and not only form a barrier against the encroachments of Rome, but silently and indirectly do more towards operating a change of religious sentim'^nt in her dis- ciples, than some of the zealous efforts which have been used for making inroads among them. Certain it is, that in proportion as it pleases God that we prosper among ourselves, and gather in one the stray sheep, who in many parts of the country carry, as it were, no owner's mark, we weaken the cause of Rome, — since there is no one thing which holds the Roman- ist so fast to his religion as the contemplation of those 50 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S most unhappy distractions and those most humiliating errors and excesses which it would be too easy for me to indicate among the Protestants in some portions ot the land. The late devoted Bishop Stewart, whose praise is in all the churches, used to say, with reference to the Roman Catholic population, '' 1 am not prepared to attack them." A day may be coming, and I hope that, by God's grace, we shall be found ready for it, when our tactics must be changed : possibly a day may be not very far off, in which we shall be thrown upon the defensive in a way to try our courage and endurance. But this is a long digression. A voluntary and unsolicited movement was made by some settlers in the outskirts of Mr. Thompson's charge, in support of the Church Society of the diocese, with whose operations they had no sooner been made acquainted, than they came forward with their contributions— an instance oi ihvit forwardnesii of mind commended by St. Paul, which deserves to be recorded. July 21* — Mr. C. Forest, before the present vacation one of the Society's students at Bishop's College, drove me over to Chambly, about a dozen miles from St. John. The time of his ordination was coming on. The Rev. Messrs. Dawes and Thomp- son accompanied me on the road. Thirty-six persons, of whom five were military, were confirmed in Chambly church. The congregation consisted of about eighty. We went to inspect the newly-finished parsonage- house, a neat cottage close to the church, which Mr. White his bri( I waite, I At ele^ I at the I the pui I place. I road, b I Jult La Co Mr. T additio sized s dedical church confirr of the will kr in sucl tismal 1 by its \ more < ratificj good part tratior prehei VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 51 imiliating isy for me ortions of praise is nee to the epared to d I hope dy for it, bly a day je thrown arage and was made lompson's ty of the no sooner jvard with ^wardness jserves to 3 present Bishop's t a dozen >rdination i Thomp- t persons, Chambly at eighty, arsonage- hich Mr. White was making his preparations to occupy with his bride. After dining with the Rev. Mr. Braith- waite, I returned with the same party to St* John. At eleven o'clock at night the Rev. C. Morice arrived at the rectory, having come over from La Colle for the purpose of driving me the next morning to that place. He had met with sundry misliaps upon the road, but happily not with any injury. LA COLLE CHURCH CONSECRATED. Juh/ 28. — We went to breakfast at Mr. Morice's, at La Colle, sixteen miles from St. John, Mr. Davis and Mr. Thompson being again of the party, and three additional miles brought us to the church, a good- sized stone building, which I proceeded solemnly to dedicate to God, by the form of consecration. The church was well filled, but only seven persons were confirmed. I baptized a lovely infant, the first child of the Rev. Mr. Morice. I trust that long before it will kno7v to refuse the evil and to choose the goody in such sort as to assume the obligations of the bap- tismal covenant upon itself, the church now served by its father will exhibit, upon such occasions, a more encouraging array of persons uniting in that ratification, for I am encouraged to believe that a good leaven is working among the people. This part of the country was long left without the minis- trations of the Church, and prejudices and misap- prehensions are abroad in the neighbourhood, which 52 BISHOP OP Montreal's are fostered by those unfriendly to lier interests. God grant that by the judicious zeal of her ministers, and the holy example of her people, she may every- where be enabled to allay the spirit of unkindly opposition, and to lessen the amount of those lamen- table divisions which so conspicuously obstruct the progress of the gospel I God grant that the right- eousness of our Zion may go forth ashi'ujhtnessy and the saltation thereof as a lamp that hurneth! Some of the neighbours having kindly provided conveyance for me, I proceeded about six miles, first to the Island aux Noix, crossing the ferry, and then on to Clarenceville, in the mission of the Rev. Mr. Townsend, when I became once more his guest. July 29. — Forty-eight persons were confirmed this morning in Clarenceville church. From two hundred and fifty to three hundred were present. The practice of chanting, which I am anxious of extending gradually throughout the diocese, has been introduced — a leading part being taken by a son of Mr. Townsend's, a medical student, who is musically gifted. In the afternoon, Mr. T. took me to Philipsburgh, the distance being made sixteen miles by a little detour, for the purpose of visiting a brick church now in progress in the little village of Newryville, which will make the third in his mission. It has gone on slowly, but is well-built, and occupies an excellent site. Mr. Ford, the catechist, resident at Christieville, whose services are known to the Society, attends here at stated in- tervals as a lay reader ; it being impossible that Mr. VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 53 interests, ministers, lay every- unkindly se lamen- jtruct the the righU tness, and h! provided six miles, ferry, and ' the Rev. his guest, confirmed I. From Ired were ich I am ;hout the ►art being medical afternoon, nee being le purpose ss in the make the ly, but is Mr. Ford, se services stated in- e that Mr. Townsend can, with all the other duties lying upon his hands, afford constant Sunday service at this church. I was welcomed to my old quarters in the parson- ao;e at Philipsburgh. July 30. — This morning the new brick church in the village of Philipsburgh was consecrated — four clergymen assisting me, one of whom was from [the neighbouring diocese of Vermont, in the U. States— a little incident of an agreeable character, I since nothing is more soothing, (and I have often lielt it strongly in travelling and officiating in that [country,) than to nnd the bond of common-faith and church-membership, and still more with the added cord of brotherhood in the ministry, in persons belonging to a foreign land, living under different, [and perhaps, in sonre noints, contracted political linstitutions, and exhibi » »► a different state of man- Iners and social habits from that which prevails among [ourselves. How much are we wronged by those who think that our maintenance of a consistent and un- fi^mpromising churchmanship proceeds from our sictual love of party distinctions, and a spirit of gra- tuitous exclusiveness ! — not aware that a fervent love )f christian unity, if, at the same time, it be a dis- ferning love, can never, as I humbly conceive, be •econciled with a lax and accommodating recognition )r proceedings, coupled with irregularity and division >r the body. About one hundred and fifty persons ^vere present at the consecration, of whom nineteen ^vcro oonfirm^M. Tn both cases, and r.^'-cci:;Mr in the o4 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S former, the numbers were thinned by a hard and determined rain, which con tinned all day, and deterred several persons from coming who lived at a distance, The church is a neat and well-finished structure, and has near it some beautiful elms with sweeping and dependent branches, which greatly ornament the village. BEDFORD — UPPER STANBRIDGE. I had crowded a little too much work into a few hours in the appointments for this day, and had to push on with the conveyances provided by my good brethren of the clergy, in order to be in time for the confirmation in the afternoon, eight miles distant, at Bedford, in the mission of the Rev. James Jones, absent in England upon a tour, in which, by the divine blessing, he was signally successful, to collect money for ecclesiastical purposes in his neighbour- hood. I was received by his family at the newly- built parsonage, a modest brick edifice, with a little garden more useful than ornamental, interposed between its front and the wooded bank of a rapid little river. Beyond the garden there is a narro^v and closely sheltered road leading along the river side through a beautiful grove of pines and other tree>=. The service in the church was held at four o'clock. The rain continuing, the congregation here also was diminished, and some of the more distant candidate; tor confirmation were prevented from attending. A hun sent, a Jones y July parsonj twelve ing', so luntary miles exhibiti and reli means ] trust th seven v may coi eight w hundrec church, with on called 1^ mand T his pars emineni the win by a sn and the of who took m I young table fa stage of VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 55 hard and i deterred distance, structure, sweeping ament the nto a few ad had to f my good [me for the distant, at Qes Jones, h, by the , to collect leighbour- he newly- ith a little interposed )f a rapiil a narro^v the river other tree."!, lur o'clock, re also ^va^ candidate! attending. A hundred persons, however, or upwards, were pre- sent, and twenty-one were confirmed. The Rev. W. Jones was in charge, in his father's absence. Jul^ 31. — After an early breakfast, I left the parsonage at Bedford, and set out, with a train of twelve waggons which drew up at my time of start- infi", some of them occupied by members of a vo- luntary choir, for Mr. Jones's other church, four miles oflF, at Upper Stanbridge Mills. The church exhibits an air of neglec , and the moral, political, and religious condition of this place is not by any means hopeful ; but we must hope against hope, and trust that the Lord has some people here now, the seven who came forward for confirmation being, we may comfortably believe, of the number. Twenty- eight were confirmed in the mission. About one hundred and twenty persons were present in this church. The Rev. Mr. Reid had sent over a waggon, with one of his sons, from Frelighsburg, (otherwise called St. Armand East, as Philipsburgh is St. Ar- mand West,) and a drive of six miles brought us to his parsonage, standing in the church-yard, upon an eminence overlooking the village which lies among the winding and finely wooded hills, and is traversed by a small river. Service was immediately held, and there were perhaps two hundred persons present, of whom twenty-one were confirmed. Mr. Reid took me in the evening to see a most interesting young female, belonging to one of the most respec- table families of the village, lying in a far advanced stage of languishing and hopeless consumption, but 56 BISHOP OF Montreal's a humble, resigned, and believing soul, who had been nursed carefully in the bosom of the Church, and whose heart had been directed into the loce of God, and into the patient wailing for Chrif.t, Mr. Whit well had come on with me from his mission, and I spent the evening with him at Mr. Reid's, where we both slept. The two veteran missionaries, who have borne the brunt of many a hard day in their obscure but holy warfare, were talking much of old times, and reverted often to the recollections of Bishop Stewart, the original mis- sionary of both the places, then comprised in one charge, which form their respective cures. Mr. Reid was ordained to be Dr. Stewart's substitute, in 1815, when the latter paid a visit to England. Dr. Stewart took a new field of labour after his return, and Mr. Reid remained, as principal, in the charge. Mr. "VYhitwell was brought out from home, by Dr. Stewart, and crossed the Atlantic in his company. Mr. Reid's church, and all its appendages and adjuncts, are always in excellent order. He and his people have lately built a commodious shed near the church, forming a long range in the shape of the letter L, for the reception of the horses and sleighs, during the performance of divine service in winter, This is a provision against the rudeness of the cli- mate, often to be found in N. America, and, although sometimes rather unsightly, it is useful and humane, VISITATION JOURNAL— 1846. 57 bad been ircb, and of God, from bis n at Mr. ) veteran if many a are, were ■ten to the ;inal mis- 5d in one res. Mr. )Stitute, in and. Dr. lis return, he charge, le, by Dr. company, dages and He and shed near ape of tlie id sleighs. in winter, af the ell- 1, althougli d humane. VISIT TO SUTTON. August 1. — This day was allotted to Sutton, a lace which I had never before had occasion to visit, ut which Mr. Reid had long watched over, so far s his more immediate and proper duties would )ermit ; and in which Mr. Kemp, one of his pa- 'ishioners, who has also property and carries on )usines3 in Sutton, has been most zealously engaged n forwarding and assisting the erection of a church, jince the establishment of the mission of Brome, he charge of Sutton has been in the hands of the ev. Mr. Scott, and it forms one of his regular itations. It is twelve miles from Frelighsburgh. was driven over there in Mr. Kemp's waggon and air, in company with some of his family, all of hom are attached and consistent members of the hurch. Our road lay up the side of the Pinnacle ountain, leaving its extreme summit on our right. he drive is among the most beautiful in Canada ; d tiiat is, indeed, saying much : the backward e\v, from its most elevated point, extends over a rodigious tract of country, reaching behind Mont- al to the Lake of the Two Mountains ; and as u begin to wind down the hill on the other side, e eye encounters, across the intervening valley d within the territory of the United States, a ried exhibition of mountain scenery, range beliind nge, in continuous irregular lines, and summit er summit, here gradually rounded off, and there ing into peaks. > 58 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S The late Bishop Stewart, when he was a mis- sionary at St. Arman(1, some forty years ago, had a path made through the woods to the top of tlie Pinnacle Mountain, and half an acre cleared at its termination, at his own charge ;— a pleasing example 1 ^™ to show that, with all his ceaseless and energetic a goo devotedness to the cause of the Gospel, he was not , inattentive to the objects of providing beneficial recreation for his neighbours, and cultivating among them a relish for the more strikiiifjc scenes of nature. mine flieti; that Aboi very made CONFIRMATION IN THE UNFINISHED CHURCH AT SUTTON. We descended to Sutton Flats, through whicli a clear little river w^inds its way, and upon whicli the church and the nascent village are situated, The church is a plain, solid stone building, o; moderate dimensions, with a tower in front, and pierced with Gothic arches for windows. Thest apertures were now filled up with fresh branche? of fir, and the church was prepared within, in i rough and temporary way, for the service, a poin; which had been only gained by extraordinary exer tions, animated and headed by Mr. Kemp, alwaj- acting hand in hand with the clergy. The Rev Mr. Reid came over with us, and the Rev. Mr. Scot met us on the spot. As every thing is quite net here, and the utmost attention which the Churci could heretofore afford was very scanty, and tb spiriti opposi plants and d erectic presen two se We mi at larg V mul nstanc recise ler efl nd pr( ivithou roceec ay, an lacrity e pur^ Pirate, alous umber VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 59 ,^as a mis- 3 ago, had top of the ared at its ng example i energetic he was not y beneficial bting amon^ 5S of nature. CHURCH AT •ongh whlcli upon whici ire situated building, 01 front, and )ws. Thest 5sli branchei Iwithin, in 2 •vice, a poin; 'dinary exer [emp, alway: The ReT tev. Mr. Scot is quite ne? the Churci nty. and tilt minds of the people had been bewildered by con- flicting influences, I was not at all surprised to find that there were only six subjects for confirmation. About 200 persons were present. I trust that, by God's blessing, a good foundation has been laid, and a good feeling is growing towards the Church and her ministers. There is one evidence of this, of a very painful character, with which we have been made but too familiar in our endeavours for the spiritual benefit of the colony ; — I speak of the opposition immediately set on foot when the Church plants her banner with good auguries of success, and displaying itself in forced measures for the erection of a rival place of worship, and, in the present instance, by a coalition, for this object, of two sects, holding utterly irreconcileable opinions. We may well deplore whatever faults in the Church |at large may originally have tended to the production )r multiplication of dissent ; but here, and in other instances among us, too marked to be mistaken, it is irecisely the zeal of the Church, and the promise of ber efficiency, which have provoked competition, md prompted the ob. truction of her work — and this [vithout any possible plea of arrogant or aggressive roceeding on her part. Happy, indeed, will be the lay, and it may yet come, when all the spirit and ilacrity manifested in religious undertakings shall •e purged of such leaven as this, and we can co- >perate, upon lawful terms, with those who are now lalous of our movements ! We dined, with a good umber of persons who had come over from neigh- 60 BISHOP OF Montreal's bouring townships to the confirmation, at Mr. Kemp's, and his son afterwards drove me on twelve miles to the parsonage at Coldbrook, in Brorae, where I slept. been rathe churc confirmation and consecration of the church AT BROME. Sunday, Au(just2,—T\\\s> day was the anniversary of my admission to deacon's orders ; and it was marked by acts peculiar in one case, and in another commonly reserved to the office which, in the pro- vidence of God, putting treasui^e in poor earthen vessels, I have been permitted to reach. I held two confirmations, and consecrated a church. The church at Coldbrook is a neat wooden building, completed since my last visit. The Rev. Messrs. Balfour and Slack came over from their respective missions, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Salmon, who was on a visit in the neighbourhood, from Upper Canada, to assist Mr. Scott and myself in the consecration. The church was as full as it could well be, probably more than 300 persons being present, and the heatj was excessive. Eight persons were confirmed. At! the close of the services, I administered the sacra- ment of the Lord's Supper, with assistance from the clergy ; and there some communicants, who, for the first time in their lives, I trust not without discern- ment of the Lord's body, partook of the holy rite, As it was necessary, for the sake of different parties present, to advert to all the ceremonies which had I Mr now t the fo at Du confiri jret th but th( A con< I whom Cotton Can add read th missior Cotton arrange measur substan where, which Roman here, to Christij to men family, support I VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 61 Kemp's ^^^^ witnessed by the congregation, my sermon was miles to e I slept. rather long, and we were very nearly four hours in church. CONFIRMATION AT DURHAM. CHURCH i Mr. Scott and I had no time to lose ; for he had now to drive me twenty miles, over a road of which the former part was intolerably bad, to the church at Durham Flats, where I had an appointment to confirm and preach at four o'clock. We did not <^et there till five; and there were some persons, but they were extremely few, who had gone away. A congregation of about 500 persons remained, of whom thirty-seven were confirmed. The Rev. Mr. Cotton, the oldest of the Society's missionaries in Canada, who has a good deal recovered his 'lealth, read the prayers. Mr. Scott statedly assists in this mission, receiving a small compensation from Mr. Cotton. The church, which is very roomy, but ill arranged and unsightly, is in bad repair, and measures are in full train for replacing it by a more substantial and seemly edifice. There are, as every- where, different sects at the village of the Flats, which is a rising place in the township ; and the Roman Catholics have lately established a church ho, for the here, to add one more to the exhibitions of divided ut discern-! Christianity. I have had occasion in former journals je holy rite. Jto mention the different branches of the Bakei* rent parties ifamily, in this place, — pre-eminent in loyalty and which had Isupport of the Church, and always forward in hos- niversary id it was n another I the pro- ►r earthen I held two 'he church completed lalfour and missions, was on a Canada, to nsecration.. 3, probably id the heat; irmed. At the sacra- e from the 62 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S pitable nttentions to tlio clergy. I slept, ns befoio. at Mr. W. Baker*?. IMr. Cotton's residence is in another part of the townsliip. rnosrECT of a ciiuiicii at nelsonville. Aftfjust 3. — After an early breakfast, I set out with Mr. Scott for Nelsonville ; a place of which the water privileges, in the American phrase, have led to the erection of mills, and other establishments, in which some considerable capital is embarked. There is also a court-house here ; and, altogether, the prospect of advancing prosperity. Mr. Ruyter, who keeps a respectable inn, has promised a site for a church ; and it is hoped that means may, in due time, be found for making some special and sufficient provision for divine worship in the village. At present, Mr. Scott and Mr. Cotton officiate upon occasion in the court-house. Here I parted with Mr. Scott ; and Mr. Baker, a son of my host, who had followed me in a double waggon from Durham Flats, drove me on to West Shefford church, eighteen miles from that place. This young man has since entered the college at Lennoxville. At Wcit ShefFord, my first mark in the laborious mission ot the Rev. Mr. Balfour, I was met by that gentleman, from Waterloo, and also by Mr. Robinson, from the same place, whose son has been for some time engaged in preparation for the ministry, at the college just mentioned. There are three youn men no^ townshi] j^rowing populati tiie anti upon its will be ] lability. United S I founc some im amounted .women, t kome on. fof the otl jparsonage CO Anfjust liles brou >vhere a c( >nly six j >f the rite Balfour. lad occas wciety, ai VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 6;i befoio, ;o is ill LLE. set out ►f which se, have shments, nbarked. together, . Kuyter, a site for y, in clue sufficient ige. At ite upon •ted witli lost, who Durham eighteen has since A.t West lission of ntleman from the Dme time at the te young men now there belonging to families in the eastern townships; and thus the institution, wbich is daily growing in the confidence of the surrounding population, is already working that effect of wliich the anticipation formed one reason for deciding j upon its locality. The youth of the townships who will be moulded within its walls, would, in all pro- bability, have otherwise been sent to colleges in the United States. CONFIRMATION AT WEST SIIEFFORD. I found the church at West ShefFord undergoing some improvements. The congregation, which amounted to about 150 persons, consisted chiefly of women, the crisis of the hay-making having just icome on. Thirteen females were confirmed — none |of the other sex. Mr. Balfour drove me on to the iparsonage at Waterloo, a distance of eight miles. . CONFIRMATION AT FROSTE VILLAGE. August 4. — A distance of between tw^o and three iles brought me to the church of Froste Village, ivhere a confirmation was this mornin^j to be held. Only six persons presented themselves as recipieus )f the rite ; making nineteen in the mission of Mr. ialfour. The Eev. Mr. Hellmuth, whom I have lad occasion to mention more than once to the 5ociety, as Professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical 64 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S Literature in the college, himself a converted Jew, passing through this part of the country in his tour during the vacation, preached upon this occasion. There were, perhaps, 100 persons present. There is a highly beautiful view, comprehending lake, forest, mountain, and valley, from the top ol a hill on the road from Waterloo to Froste Village. NEW CHURCH AT WATERLOO. The new church at Waterloo is proceeding very slowly; but it is a neat building, and of excellent workmanship, built of wood. It stands well, upon a rising ground, at the head of one of the little streets of the village. In the evening, the Rev. Mr. Slack, who had come over from Granby Village, distant twelve miles, for ] the purpose, drove me to his house, where I slept, and, at this point, fell back into the road which I had travelled in the end of June, on my way from Bishops' College to Montreal. r i CONFIRMATION AND CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCB AT GRANBY. August 5.— Mr. Slack's house, which is his ovvi property, standing exactly opposite to his churcli although it is built of wood, has, with its whol< premises, an English style and air about it, not a allu of w as til comf and ; own from god fa sterli gave with I was ( clergy confir distan the c churcl marks next t a sen fitted for oul in all in mo way h Ab( and p< place, the ne; to sup Churc VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 65 erted Jew, in hi3 tour s occasion. t. prehending the top of te Village. geding very )f excellent i well, upon if the little 10 had come e miles, for ere I slept, 3ad which I ly way from HE CHURCB is his owl his churd h its wholt ut it, not ai all usual in the Canadian townships. The church, of which the frame had been put up before he came, as the first resident missionary, to the spot, has been completed, in a great measure, through his exertions, and not, I believe, without a large outlay from his own means. He has also been helped by friends from England. A gentleman there, who was his godfather, and who had previously given 20/. sterling, through his hands, to Bishops' College, gave 50/. sterling to this church, and presented it with the communion-plate besides. The church was consecrated, in which ceremony I had seven clergymen to assist me. Twenty-nine persons w^ere confirmed. The burying-ground, which lies at some distance, very nicely laid out, was consecrated after the conclusion of the services in church. The churchyard and the burying-ground are both re- markably well enclosed, and the former is planted next the road by an avenue of trees, in the form of a semicircle. The church itself is finished and fitted up in a manner which would afford a model for our country churches in Canada, if only we had, in all cases, the same advantages at command ; but, in most of our poor settlements, we are a sad long way from that. About 250 persons were present in tlie church, and portions of the service were chanted. In this place, a little more than three years ago, although the nearest missionaries on both sides did their best to supply occasional ministrations, the hopes of the Church were almost prostrate, and the hearts of her 66 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S people were faint. I have seen, in many remarkable instances, in this diocese, and often not without a rebuke brought home to myself, the duty exemplified of waiting on the Lord, and tarrying his leisure. The church stands in a portion of a lot of ten acres, which (as I have mentioned in a former journal,) was a gift from the Rev. T. Johnson of Abbotsford. The burying-ground was the gift of Mr. Guerout, brother of the Society's missionary at the Riviere du Loup en Haut. • qualifi their j I re house tous n (mono as in s and th are p< Indian a clean of som \ useless CONFIRMATION AT ABBOTSFORD. August 6. — Mr. Slack having provided convey- ances, we drove over, he himself and Mrs. Slack and Mr. Hellmuth being of the party, to the Rev. Mr- Johnson's at Abbotsford. The interior of the church at this place has been much improved and made very neat. Twenty persons were confirmed, whom I addressed something in the form of a familiar sermon, but I had also appointed Mr. Hellmuth to preach to the congregation. From 120 to 150 were present. There is one advantage arising out of the prevalence of schism and the constant discussion about the emptiness of mere forms, proceeding from a desire to fix the charge of formality upon the Church, that there is an increased scrupulousness engendered among our people in considering their Aitg 1 this nei * the dis[ \ any set ] mont h [ in passj ito Moi I June. I to go I John so I partly i mounta and Le VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 67 imarkable without a :emplified eisure. ot of ten a former obnson of 16 gift of lissionary qualifications, and preparing their hearts to take their part in the special solemnities of their religion. I remained as the guest of Mr. Johnson, whose house directly faces, at a short distance, the precipi- tous mountain of Yamaska. A remarkable plant (monotropa uniflora,) is found upon this mountain, as in some other parts of Canada, of which the stem and the leaves, as well as the flower in all its parts, are perfectly white. It is called familiarly the Indian Pipe, and in fact has no small resemblance to a clean common tobacco pipe, supposing the addition of some little foliaceous decorations to that article of useless indulgence. 1 convey- Slack and Kev. Mr r of the oved and onfirmed, a familiar llmuth to 1.50 were out of the discussion ding from upon the ulousness •ing their I VISIT TO ST. HYACINTH. August 7. — I had reserved a spare day or two for this neighbourhood, and had placed my services at the disposal of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Slack, to visit any settlements which they might fix upon. Rouge- mont had already been attended to in this manner, in passing through here on my way from Lennoxville to Montreal, as mentioned in noting the 30th of June. An engagement had now been made for me to go to St. Hyacinth, fourteen miles from Mr. Johnson's. The road winds through a flat country, partly along the margin of the river Yamaska, the mountain of the same name, with those of Rougemont and Lelseil, rising' abruptly in view, in their several 68 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S detached masses, from the extended plain. The boldest of these heights is that of Belseil ; and upon the most elevated point of its rocky summit, the Bishop of Nancy in France, who made a circuit through Canada some few years ago, erected, with a great train and a vast deal of pomp and ceremony, a huge cross, I think sixty feet high, covered with tin, flashing far and wide in the sun, and visible at a vast distance, from different parts of the surround- ing country. This prelate, who was a nobleman, (Comte de Forbin Janson,) and all whose energies and influence were entirely devoted to the object of advancing the power of the Church of Rome, was in the habit of preaching to immense crowds of people for several consecutive days at the same spot, as he travelled about the country^ and had tht reputation, among the superstitious or the ignorant, of working miracles. He was in a manner an idol to them himself, and memorials of his visits are standing in a number of different parishes. The cross on the Belseil mountain is now a resort for a species of pilgrimage, and helps to nourish an er- roneous "devotion among the people. I do not repudiate the emblematical cross with which we are signed, when the mercy of God in Christ first reacliej us in our baptism, or with which our churches are crowned as the material symbol of our faith : the dislike of these usages partakes, itself, in my judgment, of superstition ; but it is impossible not to mourn over the misapplication of such zeal, such perseverance, and such reusorces as those to which I have just adverte been n iatellig Christy the um It Wi ling of ; populat St. H^ hearts, stratior : resemb •of the '. 'togethe 'duct th \ reveren \ devotio] ^provide house o: been ac and ha^ ^service of the C and I p: station f] Ibuildini: j anxious have be I them, t( ! to an es seigneu] VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 69 ain. The and upon mmit, the i a circuit ted, with a sremony, a d with tin, isible at a surround- nobleman, se energie.< le object of Rome, was crowds of ; same spot, d had the e ignorant, er an idol visits are shes. The esort for a rish an er I do not ich we are rst reaches urches are faith : the r judgment nourn over rseverance, '. have just adverted, and ardently to wish that they could have been made available for teaching men rightly and iatelligently to f/lori/ in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and for truly making known among them the unsearchable riches of that only hope of sinners. It was for the sake of a very little flock, a sprink- ling of Protestants in the mass of the Romish s population, that the clergy had planned my visit to St. Hyacinth ; and in order to encourage their hearts, as w^ell as to make what they called a demon- stration in the eyes of the Romanists, though little ■ resembling or desiring to resemble the proceedings iof the Bishop of Nancy, it was their wish to bring * together a few brethren in the ministry, and to con- duct the services with all the seemly and chastened i reverential efiect and all the judicious aids to 5 devotion, for which the Church of England has j provided. I proceeded accordingly to the court- Miouse of the village, with the use of which we had ibeen accommodated, attended by four clerfrymen, jand having robed in an adjoining room, we held I service in that which was fitted up for the sittings I of the Court. Portions of the service were chanted, ^and I preached to about seventy persons, a depu- tation from whom waited upon me, before I left the ; building, with an address. They were exceedingly anxious, while they appreciate the great efforts which have been made at intervals by the clergy to visit them, to have some arrangement more approaching to an established provision for public w^orship. The J seigneur of the place, although a Romanist, has ft i 1 I I 70 BISHOP OF 3I0NTREAL S promised them a beautiful site upon the crest of a hill on which part of the village is built, in the immediate neighbourhood of a dense grove of pines, and a scattered group of deciduous trees. Here they purpose to erect a building, in the first instance, which shall serve both for a school-house and for the purposes of divine worsliip, hoping ultimately to put up a church. It has since been arranged that they should have service once a month, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Slack taking a leading part in this labour, and Mr. Scott of Brome (who was one of the clergy in my company) undertaking to come over at appointed times from his own more distant mission to one of theirs, when they should visit here. The two clergymen resident at Sorel, twenty-four miles off, have also promised to help, the congregation at St. Hyacinth most cheerfully undertaking to provide conveyance. St. Hyacinth is rather a flourishing Roman Ca- tholic village, with a population of 2,000 souls, a market, a large church, a convent and a college, this name being given to the different establishments for school education in Lower Canada which are founded under the auspices of the Romish Church. We dispersed about the village to dine with different Protestant families, my own h'dlet falling upon the house of an enterprising American, who conducts a foundry and a manufacture of agricultural implements in the place. Towards evening we set out on our return to Mr. Johnson's, leaving Mr. Hellmuth, who was to proceed hence to Montreal, to per Johns( out of drench on the but no he is i effect ( Au(j I spent to Gra The dr to go a rocky 1 at the edge, ! blosson CON FIR Aug\ miles had rer proceed met us which ] it were permit, VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 71 ?rest of a it, in the of pines, Elere thev instance, nd for the ;ely lo put that they hnson and hour, and clergy in appointed )n to one The two miles off, ion at St. D provide to perform a second service to the people. Mr. Johnson, in fording the river, was upset and thrown out of his waggon ; he was, of course, thoroughly drenched, as was a neighbour who accompanied him on the trip, and he lost his umbrella and his wig, but no other damage, happily, ensued, although, as he is in delicate health, I was apprehensive of the effect of his evening drive in wet clothes. August 8. — This day, the greater part of which I spent in writing letters, I returned with Mr. Slack to Granby, having further duties yet in his mission. The day being intensely hot, I took an opportunity to go and bathe in the narrow little river, sunk in a rocky bed between steep wooded banks, which flows at the back of his church, and found, at the water's edge, specimens of the lobelia cardinalis in full blossom. Oman Ca- 00 souls, a coUer/e, Jishments irhich are Church, line with let falling lean, who ricultural ig we set Mr. vnig Montreal, CONFIRMATION AND CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCH AT MILTON. August 9. — Mr. Slack's church at Milton, nine miles off, was to be consecrated this day. Mr. Scott had remained to assist in the ceremony, and we all proceeded together to the spot, where Mr. Johnson met us from Abbotsford. This little church, of which I have sent home a drawing to the Society, if it were only of stone, which circumstances did not permit, would be an excellent pattern for our churches 72 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S in the woods ; its square embattled tower, projected from the building, and ornamented with the dial plate (although it is but in seeming) oF a clock ; its gothic windows, with the panes in the lozenge form ; its neat and ecclesiastical, although simple and unpretending, fitting-up in the interior ; its open seats instead of pews, — a condition being inserted in the deed of gift from Mr. Slack, who owned the site, that no leased sittings of any kind shall ever be put up, — give it altogether a style and character whicli is properly associated with the edifices erected for the worship of the Church of England. The under- taking was commenced since the formation of the mission and the appointment of Mr. Slack ; and to him it is in many ways indebted for having been brought to its completion. Upon the present occasion it was much crowded ; the congregation consisting of about 180 persons, and there being regular accommodation for only 150. Thirteen were confirmed, after the ceremony of consecration had been gone through. It was the first episcopal visit to the place. SERVICE IN THE UNFINISHED CHURCH AT WATERLOO. I had an appointment in the evening, to revisit Mr. Balfour's mission, in order to preach at Waterloo in the unfinished church, mentioned in the notes of the 4th of August ; and, after stopping at Mr. VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 73 ojected lie dial ^k ; its 3 form ; le and en seats i in the the site, ever be jr which cted for I under- i of tlie ; and to ng been present Tegation e being Thirteen secration piscopal Slack's for some refreshment, I was driven on the remaining twelve miles by a son of Mr. Robinson of Waterloo, who came over for me. The building was roughly prepared for the occasion, and perhaps 200 persons were assembled. I was violently ill for a short time, at the liouse where I stopped to robe, from an attack of what is called in Canada the cAo/era of the country, to distinguish it from the Asiatic disease of the same name. This was possibly brought on by interposing a hurried meal at Mr. Slack's, between two drives in excessive heat. I could not go into the church during the prayers ; but, in proof of that fitness for my labours in point of physical constitution with which it has pleasea my Maker to bless me, I preached without any inconvenience to I myself or difference of effect perceptible by my hearers. Mr. Slack has three full services every Sunday : at Granby, where he lives; at Milton; and at the South Ridge in Granby, where there is as yet no church, but a very good congregation. Forty- two persons, in all, were confirmed in his mission. .TERLOO. lo revisit 'aterloo notes of at Mr. VILLAGE AT THE OUTLET OF LAKE MEMPHRAMAGOG. August 10. — This day was spent in travelling from [Waterloo to the Rev. Mr. Jackson's house in Hatley, a distance of thirty-five miles. A Mr. Barton, of [West Stafford, at whose house Mr. Balfour puts up F 74 BISHOP OF MONTKEAL S when lie goes there to officiate, obligingly sent me a waggon and pair, driven by his son. Tiie road, after leavintr Stokeley, winds among woods, where it forms almost the only interruption of the wildness of nature, under the base of the dark and rugged Orford mountain, the highest land in those town- ships; and passing one or two small lakes in this portion of its course, conducts you to the outlet of the magnificent Lake Meniphramagog, where you stop to refresh yourself and your horses, there being a little incipient village with two inns at the spot. There is also a small place of worship, with a steeple, which might be taken for the church of the village; but it is assigned over to no religious body whatever, and is at present served only by a coloured man, a Baptist by profession, who comes from a distance to preach in it once in four weeks, exciting, from all that I could learn, very little interest, in any shape, upon the subject of religion. The building is much out of repair. Had the government of Christian Britain done its duty before God for its transat- lantic subjects, or even kept its pledges to the I Church, there might, by the divine blessing, have been formed here, and in many other unprovided | spots where religion is running to waste, a company of united faithful worshippers, walking in the com- manclments and ordinances blameless. Even now. I there was a desire expressed to me to receive tlie ministrations of the Church ; but I learnt afterwards that some overtures made by our clergy had been l)ut coldly received. VISITATION JOURNAL— 1846. 75 sent me le road, \liere it wildness I rugged se town- s in this outlet of ; you stop i being a the spot. a steeple, e village; whatever, ed man, a listance to from all ny shape, or is much Christian 3 transat- es to the sing, have I nprovided company I the cow- A'en now. I iceive tlie if ter wards had been I went to Cattra in the river at the outlet, and found there again the lobelia cardlnaUs with its brilliant scarlet flowers, in this instance in extra- ordinary vigour and profusion. A straight road leads up hence towards Hatley, and after the ascent of a considerable eminence, the backward view through this wooded vista upon the mountain heads is very striking and beautiful. We then came among scattered settlements ; and skirt- ing, for some distance, the edge of Lake Massiwippi, struck off to the village of Charleston, in Hatley, a few miles distant, where the church of the mission is situated, and proceeded on a mile further to the house of Mr. Jackson, which I reached about six o'clock. CONFIRMATION AT CHARLESTON IN HATLEY. August 11. — Twenty-six persons were confirmed jtliis day in Charleston village church. Rather more than a hundred were present. The Rev. Mr. Balfour followed me from Waterloo, and the Rev. C. Reid came over from Compton ; these gentlemen took some part in our services. The village is jnamed after the late Bishop Stewart, who planted the Church in this place, after leaving St. Armand, |and whose first christian name was Charles. The i^hurch is gaining in this mission in a sure kind of ^vay, although not with any very conspicuous effects, IS matters for description. I saw here a variety which was new to me in 76 BISHOP OF MONTREAL 8 natural history. I was waked up in the morning of tills (lay, at Mr. Jackson's house, by a cat who bounded into the room, with a bird in her mouth, over the blind of the open window. As she passed out the other way, I observed that she had no tail. This, I concluded, was owing to some accident or injury by which she had been deprived of it ; but I found that she was one of the tail-less cats which are not very uncommon in this part of the country, and that kittens are found in the same litter, some with tails and some without. Mr. Jackson and other clergymen, including those at Bishops* College, have made an arrangement for giving a monthly service to a small congregation of Church- people at Stanstead, just upon the American frontier, precisely similar to that which I have de- scribed as having been put in train for the benefit of | the Protestants at St. Hyacinth. I went on with the Rev. C. Reid to dine and sleep i at his house in Compton. We were accompanied by| Mr. Jackson. The distance is only eight miles. CONFIRMATION AT COMPTON. August 12. — About seventy or eighty persons were present at the confirmation, of whom ten were re- cipients of the rite. I also baptized an adult female during the service, whom Mr. Reid had duly pre- pared for the act. Some part was taken in the dutj by Messrs. Jackson and Balfour, who had come on to Compton. VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 4 I )rning of cat who r mouth, tie passed 1 no tail, icident or it ; but I ats which 3 country, tier, some ding those ;einent for •egation of J American I have de- B benefit of e and sleep npanied by | t miles. SECOND CHUnCII IN COMPTON. I regretted tliat my arrangements had not been so made as to admit of my going to see the second church in the township, which Mr. Reid has been making great efforts to push on towards its comple- tion, at Waterville, where he has been in the habit of officiating in a school-house. Mr. Reid after- wards drove me twenty-four miles, tlirough Lennox- villa to Eaton, where I reached the house of the Rev. Mr. Taylor at eight o'clock. CONFIRMATION AT EATON. August 13. — Ten persons were confirmed in Eaton church. Sixty or seventy were present. The practice of chanting has been introduced here by Mr. Taylor's family. The Rev. Mr. King had come over from Bury, and, as well as Mr. Reid, assisted in the services. This mission has unavoid- ably suffered from the long continued ill-health of Mr. Taylor, although, during part of the time, he had a curate. He is now very conriiderably better, and attributes his restoration to the use of the Caledonia Springs on the Ottawa river. NEW CHURCH IN THE MISSION OF BURY. I went on with Mr. King to Bury, and drove first to his new church on the Dudswell road, a small, neat, 78 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S wooden edifice, very well built, but not completed, and very coarsely painted within. We then returned to sleep at his residence in Robinson village; having driven sixteen miles. This is a building put up by the Land Company for a school-house, with apart- ments for the master, but occupying a site which forms part of the lands surrendered back to the government. The Church of England having, from the first, kept a school in the building, under tlie auspices of the Newfoundland and British North American School Society, which was a central establishment, having many dependencies of the same nature in the neighbourhood, and having also occupied the spacious school-room on Sundays for public worship, for which purpose some necessary alterations were made within it, we have acquired a kind of prescriptive right in the premises, in the exercise of which I do not think we ought to be disturbed ; bul; the title is in the local government, and what immediate party, or whether any can claim, as of legal right, the administration of the property as it stands, are questions perfectly unsettled. CONFIRMATION AT ROBINSON VILLAGE IN BURY. Anffiist 14. — Service was held in the above- described school-house at Robinson. From 150 to 200 persons were present, chiefly settlers from England. According to my best recollection, either fourteen or eighteen were the number con- VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 79 firmed. I also baptized a child of the Rev. Mr. King. Some troubles had been going on in this mission very difficult to deal with, and some spirits were active in the place whose proceedings were not likely to allay them. I held a meeting after service — I might call it a kind of court of general inquiry into these troubles, which I shall no otherwise de- scribe here than by saying, that, in spite of all my endeavours, it assumed a kind of tumultuary cha- racter by no means proper in itself, nor conducive to the ends of truth and justice, but which was occasioned in great part by the noisy demonstrations on the part of the majority, of good will towards their minister. I became quite satisfied, however, that it would be for Mr. King's happiness and use- fulness, all things considered, to remove to another field of labour ; and the arrangement has accord- ingly been since made, an advantageous one to him, which has been submitted for confirmation to the Society. I believe that he is doing exceedingly well in his enlarged sphere of action. SECOND NEW CHURCH IN THE MISSION OF BURY. Mr. King has put up another new church in the mission, on the Victoria road ; but my ulterior appointments obliged me to return in the evening to Eaton, and the business of the meeting, with matters arising out of it, had barely left me time to do so. I failed, therefore, to see this church. 80 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S August 15. — After an early breakfast, Mr. Taylor drove me to Leniioxville, fourteen miles, where I had an appointment to meet the college corporation on special business at ten, a.m. This business occupied the day. I put up at ray old quarters in the parsonage. NEW CHURCH AT LENNOXVILLE. CONFIRMATION IN THE OLD ONE. Sunday J August 16. — Hopes had been entertained when I was here in the end of June, that the new church might be ready for consecration against my return ; but it was found impossible to effect the object. It is a brick building, with lancet windows, and a square tov/er projected from the front, upon which it is intended to raise a spire. The old wooden church, although large, is a miserable affair. I held a confirmation in it for the last time, and preached to 100 persons or upwards. The number confirmed was fourteen. Immediately after morning services there came on one of the most violent thunder-storms which I remember to have witnessed, and the wind which blew might well be called a hurricane. This was the first rain for a great lengtli of time. CONFIRMATION AT SllERBROOKE. The storm cleared off before I had occasion to proceed to Sherbrooke, three miles and a half, where a confirmation was to be held in the a.^ternoon. VISITATIO'N JOURNAL — 1846. 81 ATION IN Here I preached to about 200 persons, and con- firmed eight. The church is of the same material iind in the same style as that of Lennoxville. Tliere is an organ, and there are some excellent singers in the choir, some of whom are gentlemen and ladies belonging to the first society in the place ; but they have lately had an American teacher, and their style of chanting has been affected by this circumstance in a manner which is new and not pleasing to an English ear. I was the guest of the Rev. Mr. Wait, a most particular friend of my own, whose services I was so fortunate as to secure for the trifling compensation provided by the congregation, at a time when the failing health of Mr. Doolittle created an additional reason for separating the important village of Sher- brooke from the cure at Lennoxville, and the good of the Church being concerned, I was sure of the I concurrence of Mr. D. himself. Extraordinary efforts jhave been made by other parties to plant their own istandard in the village, since the appointment of Mr. I Wait, and a good deal of religious excitement prevails in a certain circle of the population, of a nature, how- ever, which is likely to subside, Mr. Wait has certainly not provoked all this, by any deficiency of Imeekness, or by any offensive peculiarities in any shape whatever, in the discharge of his duties. He m\ Mrs. Wait (for I grieve to say that his health hvill compel him to return to Europe) will leave jbehind them the most lively and affectionate regrets >f those to whom he has ministered. 82 BISHOP OP MONTREAL S VISIT TO MELBOURNE. August 17.— The former part of this day was oc- cupied by writing letters, and transacting business at Mr. Wait's, and visiting some prominent indivi- duals in the place. Mr. Nicolls, the principal of thf^ college, assumed his place once more as my chaplain for the downward route, and drove me to Melbourne, twenty-four miles from Sherbrooke, which we reached between 8 and 9 p.m., and put up at the inn — a w^ord, however, which is hardly known in Canada. The liouses of entertainment are all taverns or hotels, and this latter name is given to very inferior esta- blishments, upon the most confined scale, in mere country places. The P^ench population, which is more singular, apply the term, all over the country, in the ?ame manner : and from the state of education which has thus far prevailed, often mis-spell it. I have seen it spelt on the sign-boards autel^ and tlii^ in a curious accidental conjunction ivith the name of some Saint, which is very generally the name of a parish, e. g. Autel de Saint Andre, Aufjmt 18. — I had postponed the confirmation at Mt4bourne, for the state of Mr. Fleming's healti had, at one time, caused an interruption of his dutit n and there were circumstances, within the missiori. into which I hadoccasiam to in^itute some inquirieN I remained all day for this purpose at the inn, takiii'i advantag'^ also of this b^reathing space in my jr>iir- ney, to work off som- portion of the accumulate! claims much Mr. princi] side of cation any ha which ( straine tation upon a ing hoi whom, are ele^ quarter might 1 nant wi of gosp selves ^ this is t and tha nised be taken fc neither tation of libit nm another VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 83 ly was oc- ; business nt indivi- ipal of the jr chaplain Melbourne, kve reached 1 — a word, lada. The or liotels, ferior esta- e, in mere 1, which is le countrv, ■ education 1 spell it. 1 1 '/, and thi« he nameot name of a I ng*s irmation at healt'i his dutit n| le missiori. e in(}uirie^ inn, takiiv:! n mv jonr- ccumuhiteil claims of official correspondents, in which I was much aided by Mr. Nicolls. Mr. Fleming, whose own church, with part of his principal congregation, is in Shipton, on the opposite side of the river St. Francis, is truly, in an appli- cation of the words, which I do not make with any harshness of meaning, to the unhappy divisions which exist among the followers of Christianity, con- strained to dwell with Mesechy and to have his hahi- tation among the tents of Kedar, His house stands upon a line and in close proximity with a row of meet- ing houses, belonging to different denominations, of whom, within the limits of his whole mission, then? are eleven varieties — fostered, unfortunately, in some quarters, by an influence and by resources which micfht be turned to account in amanner more conso- nant with the real advancement and hopeful stability of gospel truth. And there are persons among our- selves who actually persuade their own mindo that this is tlie Christian Church in its legitimate r.spect, and that the multiplication of these separately orga- nised bodies, one after another, upon new grounds taken for holding an independent existence, involves neither breach of spiritual unity nor mutual impu- tation of serious error ! Christ may be divided ad libit nm : one may be of Paul, another of Cephas, another of ApoUos, and so on ad infnituin — but this is not schism ; the spirit of schism is rather seen in the disapproval of it, which is presumed to carry a feeling of unchristian ill-will toward those who differ from us ! 84 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S There are, however, characteristics attaching, in some particular instances, to the divisions here immediately in view, which no sober and well-prin- cipled mind could complacently regard. NEW CHURCH COMMENCED IN MELBOURNE. In i-he course of the day, Mr. Nicolls drove me to the Gallup district, three miles back from the river, to inspect the frame of a small church, of whicli Mr. Fleming has procured the erection, in the neighbourhood (i o. spot where he has long at- tended a second cc ngregation. It is proceeding slowly, and v;Uli iitterruptions— but will, I trust, in God's gooc iime, "n;- completed. I have s'nce rN(;v. 1846] made an arrangement for the removal of Mr. Fleming to New Glasgow, which it remains for the Society to confirm ; and have provided, tempoi'arilyf for the performance of the duty in the Melbourne mission, by giving the charge of it to Mr. Lonsdell, resident ten miles oiF, with the maintenance of whose own mission I have not thought it just to the Society that its funds should continue to be burthened, however unwilling to abandon any ground which the (^hu^'ch has once taken up. It does not follow that it is abandoned for ever : nor, possibly, for any very great length of time. VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 85 3hing, in ons here vell-prin- URNE. drove me from the church, of rection, in IS long at- proceeding I trust, in rrangement V Glasgow, nfirm ; and brmance of giving the miles off, sion I have its funds r unwilling h has once abandoned at length of 1 VISIT TO DANVILLE, AND CONFIRMATION OF ONE AGED PERSON. August 19. — We crossed the river, and the Rev. Mr. Lonsdell met me on the other side, to proceed to Danville, upon the borders of Shipton and Ting- wick, where he resides. At one point of the road, there is a magnificent view over a deep and exten- sive valley, bounded by irregular and varied heights. The Society are aware that Mr. Lonsdell has made efforts, in several directions, to gather a flock to- gether, nor is it to be believed that his labours have been wholly unblessed, or have carried no benefit to any souls. But the causes to which I have just above adverted have been in particular activity, and with recent aggravation of their power, in his neighbourhood; and his hopes of building a church, or building up spiritually the system of the Church of England among the people, for the present, are prostrate. I do not think it at all desirable that we should appear ambitious of forcing ourselves any where upon the peoi)le, glad as we must be to afford them our ministrations when they are appreciated, and to be pernr itted to become instrumental to the furtherance of their salvation. Upon the present occasion, the evening service of the church was perlbrmed in Mr. Lonsdell's own house, at two o'clock, and I preached to little more than a dozen person.s his family beinuj included. One aged luul feeble man was confirmed. He came, I am convinced, in a thoroughly humble, believing, and christian spirit, lie was originally a (dissenter, and 86 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S possessed with exceedingly strong prejudices against the Church. His wife, an American Episcopalian, had all along stood immovably firm against the va- riety of attacks made upon her Communion, by her neighbours and persons who came about the house. Iler husband, in these discussions, at length bent himself to the task of candid examination, and, in the result, embraced the system of the Church. All preparatory steps having been properly gone through, under the direction of Mr. Lonsdell, he came for- ward alone in the little assembly, to seal with willing lips the covenant of hij baptism, and, professing his faith in his Saviour Christ, he bowed his knees, and bent his hoary head, to receive the benediction and prayers of the Church. It was his own strong desire to be confirmed. He and his wife are constant and devout readers of the bible. VISIT TO UPPER DURHAM. August 20. — Mr. Lonsdell drove me through Kingsey to the ferry opposite to Upper Durham church, (within the charge of Mr. Butler, being attached to the mission of Kingsey,) to which the party crossed over, and I preached there to about forty or fifty persons. Several young persons had been prepared, or had been in course of preparation, for confirmation : but a misunderstanding had arisen, and a difticulty had been created among the parents, upon the subject of some particular requirements which matter better late dii train, ; to the countrj ])resent togethe at Kinj this daj CONFi: Augi well as (lay, is J early Ei upon a has bee] the site! church Captain) who haj Kingse^ erectioi contribj England hehalf, Rate, inl VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 87 s against copalian, t the va- 1, by her le house, gth bent t, and, in rch. All through, iame for- :h willing issing his nees, and ction and )ng desire stant and through ' Durham er, being which the e to about irsons had eparation, ad arisen, le parents, [uirernents which had been pressed upon the candidates, and matters had not been adjusted when I came. A far better feeling has since prevailed. I returned to a late dinner at the parsonage, in Kingsey, where my train, if I may so call it, was rather burthensome to the hospitality, most cheerfully tendered, of a country missionary, the clergy themselves who were present amounting to seven besides myself, drawn together in preparation for consecrating the church at Kingsey on the morrow. The whole journey of this day was one of twenty-six miles. CONFIRMATION AT KINGSEY, AND CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCH. Augiist2\, — The church at Kingsey, which, as well as the burying-ground, was consecrated this day, is a white wooden building, in imitation of the early English style, with a tower and spire. It stands upon a level opening in the woods, where a village has been commenced by Mr. Longmore, who gave the site of the church and parsonage- house. The church is enclosed by a neat and substantial fence. Captain Cox, a half-pay officer of the British army, who has established his family for some years in Kingsey, has used great exertions to forward the erection of these buildings, and has received liberal contributions towards the object from friends in England. Special acknowledgments are due in this hehalf, to the lady of Sir John Croft, Bart., of Mill- Rate, in Kent, who, besides an original contribution 88 msnOP OF MONTREAL S of lo/. sterlinjr, finding that a debt upon the church created an impediment to its consecration, and being informed of tlie approaching episcopal visit, took that bar out of the way by at once assuming the responsibility of the wliole debt upon herself; and I have since learnt that she has redeemed her pled^^e by the remittance of 50/. sterling, of which it is believed that 10/. is a second contribution from herself. About eighty persons were present at the cere- mony of consecration, and eight were confirmed. A large and most respectable party afterwards assembled at Woodlands, the residence of Mr. Long- more, and partook of a handsome collation. The house and its accessories, although not completed, and far less advantageously situated, in point of natu- ral scenery, than most others in the township, are very English, and this effect was heightened by the tone and appearance of the company present. The Kev. Mr. Ross, of Druramondville, drove me after- wards to his house, about fourteen miles from Kinu:- sey, and Mr.Nicolls and Mr. Butler came on to be his guests as well as myself. We took an unfrequented road, as being shorter, and passed through very beautiful scenery, of different kinds, in the latter part of a delicious afternoon. At first it was a fine forest scene, unharmed by the hand of man ; the narrow road which just gave us passage through the tall and close woods of deciduous growth, beinff tlie only sign of his interference with the wildness of nature : it then changed its character, and becaire more again o]»eniii then r< Franci among fringec by flo "^ but th( landscii threw pronior left to 1 before but ims make u themsel me be p detail, about ?i side, ill till we mother, der to VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 89 e cliur(!]i ind being isit, took Tiing the If; andl er pledge which it :ioii from the cerc- irraed. fter wards ilr. Long- on. Tlie ompleted, it of natu- iship, are ed by the jnt. The me after- om King- n to be his Vequented mgh very the latter was a fine man ; the I rough the being the ildness of id becaire more bushy, with a mixture of fir and larch . and again the road wound irreguhirly among some partial o]»eniii5Tsand passed through one small settlement ; and then re-entering th*. woods which overhang the St. Francis, brought us to some rich and lovely meadows among the hills, upon the margin of that river, fringed by luxuriant trees and buslies, and garnished by tlo vers, weeds in blossom they might be called, but they stood high and made a show; and the whole landscape being lit up by the declining sun, which threw beautiful lights upon the i ver, its wooded promontories, and its picturesque islets, the charms left to this bli hted creation were brought strikingly before the mind. The contemplation is soothing, but images and objec ts of a far different character make up the scene of Christian labour, and contrast themselves, in thought, with pictures like this. Let me be pardoned for having stopp* d to paint it in such detail. We crossed the ferry, and continued for about five miles through the high woods on the other side, in which the hemlock tree is very prevalent, till we reached the house of Mr. Ross, where his mother, who resides with him, was waiting to ten- der to us tlio duties of hospitality. m IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I liilM |Z5 mm ^ m ^ tiS. 12.0 mil IIHH 1:25 III U|,. 6 < 6" ► '>. ... '' 4y> ^^* Photographic Sdaices Carporation 23 WIST MAIN STRUT WEBSTER, N.Y. 145S0 (716) 872-4S03 4^ 90 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S CONFIRMATION AT DRUMMONDVILLE, AND CONSE- CRATION OF THE BURYING- GROUND. August 22. — About one hundred and twenty per- sons were assembled at the service this morning, and fifteen were confirmed. Mr. Nicolls preached to the congregation, and the burying-ground was after- wards consecrated. The site had never, till lately, been fully secured in legal form ; and I did not now consecrate the church because there is a project in agitation for replacing it by a better edifice. It is quite sufficiently large, but it is an unsightly edifice, and ill put together. At Lower Durham, where Mr. Ross officiates in a school-house in the afternoon, the frame of a church has been put up for some years, and the work w^as proceeding this summer, after a considerable suspension, when the tower was struck by lightning, and much damage was done. This church is thirteen miles above Drummondville. Mr. Ross is again urging on the work, and I have made a conditional promise of further aid from a sum placed at my disposal by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. I found Mr. Ross, like many of the clergy, a little anxious and divided in mind respecting the admis- sibility of some of his candidates for confirmation, unwilling to reject those who appeal ed well disposed, although less advanced than he could desire in a knowledge of spiritual things, and afraid at the same time of establishing too low a standard of attainments. VISITATION JOURNAL 1846. 91 > CONSE- 0. reniy per- iling, and hed to the ^'as aftcr- till lately, d not now project in ice. It is tly edifice, where Mr. 3rnoon, the ome years, er, after a was struck me. This ville. Mr. lave made ►m a sum Promoting 'gy, a little ;he admis- ifirmation, 11 disposed, lesire in a at the same :tainments. The confirmations, in several instances, might have been much larger, if the clergy had been lax and easy. I went on with Mr. Nicolls, thirty-three miles, to Nicolet, where we became the guests of my friends, Colonel and Mrs. Chandler, in my well- known quarters at the Manor House. CONFIRMATION AT NICOLET. Sunday, August 2S. — I confirmed fifteen persons in Nicolet church, and preached to a congregation of about eighty. Mr. Burgess's flock being scat- tered over a considerable surface of the country, inha- bited by the Roman Catholic French population, the afternoon congregation is naturally diminished. Mr. Nicolls preached this time to between forty and fifty persons. CONSECRATION OF THE CHURCH AT NICOLET. August 24. — Mr. Ross and Mr. Butler, after the duties of the Sunday at Drummondville, pushed on to assist this day in the consecration of the church at Nicolet. I preached and administered the com- munion. About fifty or sixty persons were present. Mr. Guerout also assisted in the services, having come over for the purpose from the Riviere du Loup, It is a neat and substantial little chui'ch of stone, and the burying-ground in which it stands 92 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S (also consecrated this day) is nicely planted and enclosed. In the evening I took leave of my hosts and the clergy, all of whom were entertained at the Manor House, and went down to Port St. Francis, four miles off, where I embarked at eleven o'clock, p.m., in the steamer, and proceeded up Lake St. Peter to Sorel, which I reached at half-past one, and was met upon the wharf by the Rev. Mr. Anderson, who made me lie down for a couple of hours upon his sofa at the rectory. Avgiist 26. — I had no duties at Sorel, the Con- firmation having been held there in my journey oF last winter, and I rose at four o'clock to prepare for crossing in the ferry-steamer to Berthier, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, where Mr. Ander- son breakfasted with me ; and, having taken leave of him, proceeded, directly back from the water, to the township of Kildare, about twenty-nine miles from Sorel, which is an appendage to the mission of Rawdown. There is a beautiful spot on this road, at a ferry, where you cross a considerable river, deeply sunk between very high and wooded hills ; but the scene, like many others, has suffered, within my recollection, by the fire and the axe. CONFIRMATION AT KILDARE. I was received at Kildare, where the Rev. Mr. Rollit -came over to meet me, by an Irish family of the name eigh sion, prev sionj Soci miss weel Sun allt] wit] VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 93 nted and and the le Manor [icis, four ock, P.M., , Peter to , and was jrson, who upon hi^ of Dickson, of which there are several ramifications in the neighbourhood — persons interested in the cause of religion, and ready to make exertions and sacri- fices in support of the Church; in fact, but for them there would have been no church in Kildare. The building is sufficiently finished to be used ; and I held afternoon service, and preached to from seventy to eighty persons: eight were confirmed. I also, by particular desire, baptized a child belong- ing to the family just mentioned. , the Con- journey of )repare for ier, on the Jr. Ander- aken leave, e water, to nine miles mission of n this road, -able river, )oded hills ; ered, within jv.Mr.RoUit of the name CONFIRMATION AT RAVTDON. August 26. — Mr. RoUit drove me, after breakfast, about nine miles, to his parsonage, in the township of Rawdon ; and we were followed by two of the Messrs. Dickson, in other vehicles, bringing my ser- vant and baggage. In the afternoon, divine service was held in (he church, where the number of per- sons present approached two hundred, and thirty- eight were confirmed, making forty-six in this mis- sion, of which Mr. Rollit took charge in May, having previously held the appointment of travelling mis- sionary, under the auspices of the Diocesan Church Society for the District of Quebec. He has a larger mission now, and many appointments of duty for week days, besides serving the two churches on Sunday ; but for this labour, being equal to it, he is all the happier, and it is a relief to him, as a man with a fiimily, to have a settled home. 94 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S CONFIRM ATIOX AT NEAV GLASGOW. August 27. — We rose at five, and after an early breakfast, set out, in the first instance, for New Glasgow, in the extensive mission of Mascouche, in the different parts of which I had left it to the Rev. Mr. Flanagan to distribute my services, according to his discretion, my circuit for the summer closing there. Mr. RoUit and the elder Mr. Dickson still came on with me ; and Mr. Constable, a leading member of Mr. Il.*s congregation, accompanied us in another vehicle. At St. Lin we stopped to bait our horses, and found some refreshment provided for ourselves at the house of the miller who has charge of the seigneurial mill at this place, belonging to the Hon. Mr. Pangman, of Mascouche (for we were travelling, if T may so express it, with one foot in the seigneuries, and one in the townships). The English-speaking population of this neighbourhood, who probably do not know much about St. Linus, are a good deal at fault about the name of this place, of which, in their imperfect endeavours to follow the French pronunciation, they make some- thing like Sallah. Mr. Flanagan was waiting for us here ; and, after our luncheon, the whole party came on to New Glasgow, where service was held in the church, and I confirmed six persons : perhaps eighty, or more, were present. Mr. Rollit preached to the congregation. The church has a mean ap- pearance, and does not seem to be well built ; but, forti the Me ll VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 93 an early or New mche, in the Rev. ceording : closing kson still i leading lanied us 1 to bait provided who has jelonging i: we were le foot in s). Tlie 30urhood, 5t. Linus, le of this wours to |ike some- aiting for lole party- was held : perhaps i preached mean ap- uilt; but, by degrees, it may assume more and more of some ecclesiastical character, and be otherwise im- proved. We had come twenty-five miles before service, and I had about ten more to go, with Mr. Flanagan, to the township of Kilkenny — a township truly in the woods. This distance it was necessary to per- form on horseback, on account of the nature of a great portion of the road. A cart, however, fitted for such service, was provided for the baggage. This vehicle, and the horses, were brought over from Kilkenny ; and Mr. Irwin, the good settler who was my host in my winter journey of 1843, came with them himself. After the first few miles the road is a mere path through the dense and lofty forest; in some places it is deep and boggy, and here, in a wet season, must be difficult to get through ; in others, it is a good deal encumbered with rocks and stones, yet presenting no difficulty by daylight. A con- siderable portion, however, of the whole length, affords very good riding. It had been calculated that we should arrive late, and men were prepared to meet us in the wood with torches of cedar slips, or birch bark; but as we reached Mr. Irwin's house about half-past seven, this help, which had been put in requisition, was not needed. We partook of the refreshment provided for us, in which everything was very good of its kind ; made our arrangements for the duties of the morrow ; and, having gathered the Christian family together for evening devotions, we lay down afterwards, with feelings of thankful- 96 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S ness, and happy sense of our communion with them in the faith of Christ, beneath their humble roof. COXFIRMATIOX AT KILKENNY. August 28. — I went at six o'clock to swim in a lake which is about a quarter of a mile from the house, and upon the opposite shore of which I saw the marks of habitations, in an opening made among the woods. All beyond this is continuous and un- broken forest, up to tlie inhospitable regions of the north, yet destined, in time, to be farther and far- ther encroached upon by man. The service was appointed for half-past ten, and the church is a couple of miles from the house, to which we were not to return. We set out on horse- back an hour before the time, all the baggage being put into a cart. Within something more than a mile of the church we were obliged to leave the cart ; and the bags and portmanteau, containing f "tides required for the service, were carried by hand. We here entered a r.arrow horse-path, through a close wood of towering trees. The footing of the horses was difficult, from the quantity of great rough stones in the path. It is rarely travelled, except on foot, and in wet weather a horseman is liable to be drenched by his contact with the branches on either side ; but all w^as now dry, and all was fair. The little wooden church, still unpainted, occupies an isolated situation, upon a little eminence in an E VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 97 ith them J roof. opening among the woods, but it is central with reference to the abodes of the worshippers. Here, having tied our horses to the fence, we went in, and met a congregation of ninety person?, or upwards. Twenty-three were confirmed. vim in a from the ich I saw ile among 3 and un- ns of the and far- ten, and house, to on horse- ^age being ►re than a leave the containing carried by th, through ting of the rreat rough I, except on is liable to iranches on ill was fair, ed, occupies lence in an CLAIMS OF THE KILKENNY CONGREGATION. This congregation of Irish Church people in the heart of the woods have a strong and special claim upon the care of the Church — a claim of which, in the person of her ministers, she has assuredly not been unmindful ; for all the missionaries in succes- sion, who have held charges within any reach of them, have, with much labour and toil, paid them visits at such intervals as it was practicable to fix. Latterly they have had service once a fortnight ; but, except upon the rare occasion of administering the vSacrament of the Lord's Supper, always upon a week-day. And thus they are called away from their labours in the field, at a season, perhaps, when every hour is precious, and in a eilmate where the whole season for agricultural labour is but brief, and in a country where labour is so scarce that, in settle- ments like these, the settler and his family are the sole labourers themselves. And then, when Sunday comes, they will not profane by labour their day of rest, nor suffer those belonging to them to do so ; but their church is shut up, and no pastor is seen among them. There are many among them, I doubt 98 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S not, who devoutly improve the day in tlieir fiimilies ; but the young people are growing up without its being associated with the ordinances of the house of God, and in the danger of making it a day of mere idleness. All this the people have keenly felt, yet they have not murmured, but have thankfully appre- ciated what has been done for them, and have very generally resisted any endeavours to make advantage of their open Sunday, to draw them off, in affection and duty, from their Church. Feeling the impera- tive necessity of dividing this unwieldy mission, and particularly of supplying the want which is here indicated, and having, as has been seen above, made up my mind that the mission of Danville ought not to be kept up, and that, therefore, what- ever might be decided by the Society respecting the appropriations from the clergy reserves, the case might be provided for by the transfer of that mis- sion to this locality, I intimated to the people, before we parted, a hope of being able, before any great lapse of time, to effect such arrangement. As I was riding away, some of the leading men cried after me, ** Well ! you have gladdened the hearts of the people of Kilkenny this day." They have undertaken to add 10/. a year to the salary of the missionary, payable through the Church Society, and with a guarantee from their churchwardens, if they can have Sunday service. Mr. Fleming, who, in pursuance of the proposal just mentioned, and under the arrangement inti- mated in my notes of the 18th August, has since I jng abov' althol of, ai Canal fusioj f trees VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 99 i'limilies ; hout its house of of mere felt, yet ly appre- ave very dvantage affection J impera- mission, which is en above, Danville >re, what- 3Ctlng the the case that mis- pie, before any great As I was ried after irts of the mdertaken nissionary, nd with a they can le proposal ment inti- , has since i been settled at New Glasgow, with the charge of that place, of Paisley, and of Kilkenny, all taken off from the mission of Mascouche, will afford regular Sunday service at Kilkenny, and will, I trust, by God's blessing, be acceptable and useful to the people. Mascouche and Terrebonne, with some occasional visits to more distant points, arc reserved to Mr. Flanagan. The Society, I persuade my- self, will readily approve of what I have done. We struck, by a cross path, into the road leading to New Glasgow, and at this place exchanged our riding-horses for a light waggon, in which we pro- ceeded at once to Mascouche. A broken bridge obliged us to take an unusual road, which prolonged our drive. In one part of it we came through a broad straight vista of wood, continued for a great length, with one interruption of open fields, upon a perfectly level road. The effect was beautiful, especially in the former part of the wood, where noble pines, as straight as an arrow, reminded one of the description, which I quote from the memory of many years, of the elms about the house of Sir Hoger de Coverley, which had " shot up so exceed- ing high, that the rooks and crows, which were above them, seemed to be cawing in another region ;' although, indeed, there were no crows, that I know of, about these pines, and there are no rooks in Canada. These pines were intermixed with a pro- fusion of very flourishing larches, and with other trees of deciduous kinds. Mr. Flanagan had kindly wished that I should be 100 IJISIIOr OF MONTREAL S his guest; but Mrs. F. Imd just been confined, and I found, according to former experience, a bearty welcome at Grace Hall, tlie manor house of Mas- couche. Mr. Pangman invited Mr. Flanagan to dine there daily during my stay. August 29. — There were no public duties marked out for me this day, in the arrangements which Mr. Flanagan had made. My old task of letter- writing comes back upon me in every little break of the journey, and I was engaged with Mr. F. upon the affairs of his mission ; but I found time to stroll about the heights which surround the quiet little valley in which the manor house is situated — an exceedingly long building, of one story in height, with an enclosed kind of court before it, planted with firs and other trees. The little river which winds along the valley, and turns the seigneurial mill, passes through the immediate precincts of the house. The valley is embosomed in broken banks and hills, here closely wooded, and there ornamented by open groves or clumps of pines ; the level below, by the river side, with park-like forest- trees ; the swells, slopes, and sheltered hollows of the ground, are disposed by the hand of Nature with the hap- piest variety. I had never seen this spot before in summer, and was tempted to describe it in my notes, while the impression was fresh, and have transferred the description to these pages, although I have dealt too much already in this kind of thing. Mr. Pang- man, and his amiable family, seemed as if they might be called the tenants of the Happy Valley. VISITATION JOURNAL — 1846. 101 nfid, and (i hearty of Mas- lagan to s marked ts which of letter- ttle break li Mr. F. id time to the quiet situated — in height, it, planted \'er which ;eigneurial icts of the ken banks rnamented ivel below, trees ; the lie ground, h the hap- t before in a my notes, transferred [ have dealt Mr. Pang- ' they might The parsonage is pleasantly situated on the hill above, close to the little church ; and the burying- grouhd opposite is shaded by handsome pines. CONFIRMATION AT MASCOUOHE. August. 30, Sunday. — I preached in the morning to about one hundred persons, rather more than the church will well accommodate; but chairs had been set in the aisle for the occasion. Twenty-seven were con- firmed. In the afternoon I preached again to about lialf the number — the Protestants here, as at Nicolet, being a scattered body, intermixed with the Roman Catholic population, and some of them having far to go home. I admitted two candidates to confirma- tion, who had been prepared, but, from particular circumstances, were too late in the morning ; and I baptized the child of the reverend missionary with another. Fifty-eight persons, in all, were confirmed in this mission. An old gentleman of the medical profession, of the name of Munro, living at the next parish, was introduced to me at the parsonage house, who seemed to have been much interested by the ser- vices of the day, and whose recollections were car- ried back to his own confirmation, performed about 1787, by Bishop Inglis of Nova Scotia, the first of our Colonial Bishops, and the father of the pre- sent Bishop of the same see, when he paid an official visit to Canada. This old gentleman makes the 102 BISHOP OF MONTREAL S fourth livinpj individual of my own acquaintance who received confirmation at the same hands — the hands of the only Colonial Bishop of the Church of England then in the world. RETURN TO QUEBEC. August 31. — Mr. Pangman took me over in his carriage to Montreal. At the Lackenage ferry some rocks were shown to us, appearing above the water, which, as we were told, had never been seen before. The drought and heat of the summer had been almost without precedent ; and we found the harvest closed at a season wiien, in ordinary years, there are portions of it not begun. After crossing this ferry, we soon fell into a plank road for the remainder of our way. The whole distance from Mascouche to Montreal is twenty-five miles. I embarked at six o'clock in the steamer, and at the same hour on the next morning arrived in Quebec. The review of this journey, in which I had been enabled to keep the whole chain of my appointments made in the spring, and in which I had found many faithful brethren reaping fruity as I trust, unto life eternal, and receiving wages better than those of this world, in which they experience deficiency enough, is replete with grounds of thankfulness (and thankful, indeed, must I be, if, such as I am, God has deigned to use my own ministrations for good); but it is shaded, also, with many saddening VISITATION JOURNAL — 1 846. 103 laintance nds — the Jhurch of er in liis 3rry some he water, en before, had been le harvest there are this ferry, nainder of jcouche to ked at six 3ur on tlie [ had been Dointraents )und manv t, unto life n those of deficiency lankfulness 1 as I am, rations for saddening thoughts. There must always be a mixture of vexa- tions, discouragements, and difficulties, in carrying on the work of the Gospel in the world; and there are here local causes of depressions, peculiar in their kind. The Church, associated in the minds of men with the crown and empire of Britain, originally encouraged to believe that she should occupy her appropriate footing in the land, and command re- sources adequate to her task, and invested with a character which often creates expectations to which she would be but too happy to be able to respond, is, taken as a whole, a poor and struggling Church, strain- ing herself to meet, in an imperfect manner, the wants of her widely-dispersed members, and standing in humiliating juxtaposition with the powerful and prosperous establishment of the Church of Home. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, with much help, also, from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, has been, humanly speaking, our hope and stay. We bless God, who raised up such friends ; and we learn, that it is better to trust in Hi3i, than to pttt any confidence in \winces. THE END. R. CLAY, PIIINTEII. BREAD STREET HILL.